Dia De Luz 2008 # 2 and Margot
Monday Mar 17, 2008
I really just wanted to upload an image tonight to be able to share with you that Margot (my car) left me. Someone decided she would be better suited in their hands. If I knew where she was, I wouldn't have felt a need to post tonight, as I am rather tired.
Thursday night I rolled into my apartment at 9:45 and parked in a spot. Locked the doors and went inside. At midnight my roommate came home and parked in the exact spot I had parked in 2 hours earlier. He had no idea my car had been there.
I woke up in the morning and saw this, walked around the parking lot befuddled. I laughed and said I was going to cry because someone had either stolen my car, or I was crazy.
The police showed up 5 minutes after I called them and asked if I owed anyone any money, or if I had left keys in the car, or left it unlocked. No, no and no" where my answers.
Contents this time: (as my car was broken into in January)
Sunglasses
150 cd's.
My receipts and gas log for business for 2008.
50mm macro lens I was going to return to BH Photo that day.
Several pieces of random wood.
Several pictures of Lora and me.
1 drill.
1 set of drill bits.
My dickies jacket.
Bikerack on the roof.
A stereo from my roommate that replaced the old one that was stolen before.
A one dollar bill.
A note from Lora, on the dash.
Lots of pennies.
A walmart floor mat on the drivers side. (not the one on the passangers side because someone got in my car last year with poop on their shoes and made it smelly.
My watch.
Several other random things I will probably never miss.
I can't think of anything else right now, but I'm sure I will think of more stuff at some point.
There was no glass on the ground, so they must have been good. All of my keys are accounted for, so who knows what happened. All I know is that it was gone between the hours of 9:45pm and midnight.
Lesson learned... Don't leave anything in your car and don't ever tint your windows in the state of Virginia. Move out of the recently renovated gang neighborhood. These kids have nothing and they are happy as can be. I'm trying to be happy, though I get consumed by materialism and consumeristic thinking sometimes.
Let me be grateful for what I have and let me learn to live a simple life, so there aren't big things to lose like this.
Right now I'm in a rental car that smells like smoke. I might need to change that. It's a ford focus, an okay car, but not what I would like to own. Insurance is covering the car, but I think I'm out of luck with everything else. (anyone need a bunch of cd cases?)
Taken with a Canon EOS-1D Mark II N
