<p>Yesterday , I began taking all my school books out of my car to prepare for our holiday. ( I have so many text & reference book and tools I need for my classes, I leave them in the car in crates, because if I didn’t, I know I would forget just the thing I needed at school).</p>
<p>My car was in my driveway- my husband was in the garage.
I was in and out of my car all afternoon. But then while I getting cleaned up, my glovebox and console were gone through and my ipod was taken
so sad!
Anyway- I posted on the local Seattle journal to rant about it & received a lot of tea and sympathy from others who have noticed our neighborhood being cased so to speak. THat helped to realize that I wasn’t alone, but what really made my day, was someone else even sent me an email and offered to replace it.
I thought that was unbelievably sweet and I hope I didn’t give the impression I expected someone to fix my problem.
I just wanted to *itch.
:p</p>
<p>I guess this was a pay it forward kind of moment.</p>
<p>My son’s I-pod was stolen out of his coat pocket while he was taking an exam, and it had been required that they leave all belongs outside the room. Amazingly, a girl he knew heard some fellow bragging about his haul, confronted him, and served as the transfer to get it back. This same lucky lad lost his wallet outside of a 7-11 late at night in a town between home and school, the clerk found it, gave it to the police, who came to our house based on the driver’s license to tell S to pick it up with a picture ID at that town’s police station…S went back later and gave the clerk $20. Both the heroine and the hero were international students.</p>
<p>My D’s boyfriend found a wallet in the middle of a very busy road in town yesterday. He stopped his car to get it and discovered it belonged to an elderly woman and was stuffed with cash. There was over $1,000 in it!! He, of course, looked up her name in the phone book and called her. She started to cry for joy and offered him all the money in the wallet. He said no way but did accept some cranberry bread from her. :)</p>
<p>momof2inca,
Cranberry bread! Priceless! Kudos to your D’s boyfriend!
mathmom-I am in your neck of the woods and was just reading about the same thing. UPS deliveries being stolen, sometimes within moments of being dropped off.</p>
<p>I am wondering if that is what happened to my Hs radiator for his car- he didn’t get the tracking #, and it should have been here by now.
BUt who would want a radiator?
Its less portable than the ipod anyway!</p>
<p>People are amazing, people are sucky. My son set his iPod down on a chair, went back to get it, and it was gone. It never turned up at the lost-and-found.</p>
<p>At church. In the youth center.</p>
<p>“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23</p>
<p>I ordered four pre-mounted snow tires with wheels from Tire Rack. One day I found two wrapped tires sitting next to our garage door. “Darn, where are the other two?,” I said (lightly edited for a family audience). The next day, another tire appeared on our porch. The next day, the fourth was delivered to our porch at 9:00 pm. The ways of UPS are mysterious indeed.</p>
<p>Christmas is a very bad time for car break ins, burglaries, etc. I’ve noticed over the years. I guess criminals need money for Christmas too. I try to be extra careful around the holidays…</p>
<p>well my nagging got H to call the radiator place- he found why he didn’t have a tracking number- because they didn’t ship it.
We were charged for it last month, but it was still sitting on the loading dock.
I asked him if he at least got a upgrade on shipping for their error.
He didn’t even ask.</p>
<p>When I was at a big firm, the firm had a great charitable relationship with a public school in a poor neighborhood. At Christmastime, we bought and wrapped personalized gifts for each of the 600+ children, as well as donating money to buy books and computers for the school. We had each class’s presents in a big decorated bin. Well, someone broke into the storage facility overnight, and when the trucks got to school in the morning, four bins were gone, and four classrooms lined up and got no presents. </p>
<p>We got them (non-wrapped) presents the next day (it was no picnic finding 120 Barbie sets/remote-control trucks on December 23). But that crime still tears me up. I mean, I know about the Holocaust, I know about slavery; this story isn’t much on the grand scale of human cruelty. But part of me just can’t get over the idea of stealing CHARITY CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR POOR CHILDREN. I mean, talk about the ninth circle of wrong.</p>
<p>Well, I know this isn’t about stealing, but last night I quietly confronted a student about his plagiarism while the class was taking a test. I was so shocked as I was reading his work (it’s a mythology class, Iliad, Odyssey, etc. and he handed in a portfolio about Richard III and Napoleon from War and Peace) I spoke in front of the class.</p>
<p>He demanded I get up immediately and met him in the hall. I, of course, complied. He was infuriated and admitted that his work was completely plagiarized, or more exactly, borrowed from a friend in a Classics class, but he was going to lodge a complaint about my unprofessional behavior of embarrassing him in front of the class.</p>
<p>I did apologize, but explained that it was an involuntary reaction to the shock of such an off topic portfolio.</p>
<p>Mythmom, oh dear, indeed. Don’t you hate it when someone else’s poor behavior affects your behavior? </p>
<p>I would have been shocked, too. The mythological works of Napoleon? I’m trying to figure out why your student even considered handing in that portfolio for a mythology course. Maybe as a psychology course experiment to see how you would react?</p>
<p>The best defense is a good offense, as he has already learned, so do not let yourself get flustered about this. Try indignant, not apologetic…the nerve of him expecting you to protect his public persona. Let him file the complaint…see how much sympathy he will get! Ho-ho-ho!</p>
<p>I live in an area of NJ where we can still leave our doors unlocked, keys in the ignition of the car ( at my previous home, left all of the above with my purse in the car too )</p>
<p>In the new neighborhood, a move up, we had a home break in the night before Thanksgiving… very unusual.</p>
<p>Turns out, the burglers are coming from very far away…
and got caught. Not kids either. Losers in their 50’s.
Times are tough I guess to travel so far to invaid homes of the un-suspecting southeners that take their security for granted.</p>
<p>Bad Karma, and what goes around…well you know</p>
