Thieves

About a year ago, someone stole our lawn mower out from under our deck. We were awfully mad because it was a really nice, though purchased used, Honda mower. It was paid for, and we suddenly had to pay someone $40 a pop to mow our yard. Because North Carolina stays warm well into October we found ourselves nearly paying for another mower in paying other people to mow the yard because we couldn't dish out the funds all at once to buy another mower and we were just trying to make it until winter so we could save up for a new one next summer.

Well, thieves have struck again, taking with them more than 200 CDs from Jon's car. It was a quick job because they left the stereo and several CDs in the console and Jon's work bag. Why wasn't the car locked? Well, the key to a 1996 Camry doesn't last 13 years, and it is so worn it won't lock the doors or open the trunk. We had been meaning to get a new key made, but life, as they say, was keeping us so busy we didn't make time. We are lucky this time because we ripped a lot of the CDs onto our computer so we didn't have to keep lugging the CDs around. I'm not real sure what this thief plans to do with the entire catalogs of Guster, Barenaked Ladies, and Pearl Jam. Whoever it was must also not realize that the car seat would have gotten some nice cash on eBay.

I guess, in a way, we are naive. We go around trusting others and not stealing, assuming they will do the same. It's harder all the time to face the reality that not everyone has your best interests at heart, and some people don't even act in their own best interest. We'll be locking our car doors from now on, and I guess we'll be burning some CDs in the next few days too. I'm not really clear on how it all works, but I do know that at the end of the movie "Mean Girls," the meanest girl gets hit by a bus, so that guy with our lawn mower better be careful.