Thursday, February 26, 2009

Maybe March will be better

This is such a tale of bad luck and misery that I wouldn't fault you for doubting it. First, for over three weeks I have had some wretched bronchial cough/ yellow sputum producing/ two rounds of abx and it's still here although much improved but still capable of making me cough until I retch malady. Then, I was robbed. In my house, in broad daylight. I spend most of my time upstairs- that's where the pigs are. My daughter left for work at about five one evening, about five-thirty my husband came home. I went downstairs to start dinner and I said to him,, why is my purse in the living room on the floor? He said, it was on the couch where I wanted to sit so I put it on the floor. I told him, I never NEVER put it on the couch, but he said, well you did this time. So I thought no more about it. Until the next day when I went to buy some fast food, opened up my wallet and between two and three hundred dollars were gone. I checked with husband to see if he had taken it, although he would take half,, not all. No, it wasn't him. So, I looked out the back to the lower gate which has a log under it so when my son comes with his dogs, they don't squeeze out. We seldom use that gate, and certainly hadn't for weeks previously. The log was away from under the gate, pushed back when the gate swung open. I went to my alarm to see how they might have come in, because the back door was locked. The sliding glass door was open about a cm which showed me the zone fault. So, they came in thru my sunroom, which is open to the outdoors- abysmal little storm door which hasn't locked for year is how you get into the sunroom, tried a door, one was locked, but the sliding glass door,, which is always locked wasn't. Why wasn't it? We had it open at Christmas because it was so warm. And when it is closed and contact made, it shows up just like it is locked so when I set alarm, everything was groovy. Why didn't the alarm go off? because I was in my house, who sets the alarm when they are home? Daughter wasn't home or they would have taken her money too, because her purse was even more out in the open than mine. The neighbors on that side have had workmen present for several weeks, the working theory is that they saw daughter leave, probably knocked on my back door, but I can't hear much when I am upstairs,, saw my purse hanging out on the kitchen desk, because we have no curtains in back because we want to watch the birds at the feeder,, tried and found a way to come in, heard me and left, or I might have lost more. They didn't have much time to look around because they left my digital camera which was sitting right there alone. Anyhow, rather bizarre. Now I keep the house locked up when I am home.. so I have to unlock it to feed birds, squirrels you name it. Let me tell you,, you feel stupid not knowing you were robbed until a day later. Sheriff folks came, made reports, dusted for prints, but nothing on the glass.

And as if that weren't enough to fill my cup until it runneth over, daughter and I were on outer loop of the beltline when a T connecting piece- 4 inch plastic pipe thingy- fell off a plumbing truck, bounced around and hit my front bumper on my new car, busted it. Although we tried to get license plate, we were unable to do so. We had pulled halfway onto the shoulder trying to avoid the darn thing, slowed down,, and by the time we got back up to speed, we were hemmed in by cars and he was zipping down the road outta sight. Comprehensive is taking care of it. It's all true, I couldn't make this stuff up.

9 comments:

Gail said...

March has GOT to be better!

Anonymous said...

I'm so sorry that happened to you. I am often in the house alone and I rarely think about making sure everything is locked. But I'm glad you're okay.;

Jilly said...

i'm glad you were not harmed in the robbery or the car accident. i was mugged once and it was a horrible feeling. it was the first day of a new job, so i had my SS card with me. when i told the police i had my SS card the cop said "only an idiot carries their SS card around with them." i guess they're ammune to the bad things that happen to people.

i grew up without a locked door or window, but after moving first to the DC area and now Baltimore, everything i own is locked up tight.

i hope march is better.

jilly

Anonymous said...

Sheila, I'm sorry you're feeling like a proof of Murphy's Law, but this is not a tale of Woe. This is a tale of Thanksgiving because Someone was watching out for you. Do you realize you could have been raped, murdered, or both when that guy came into your house? Google search Home Invastion Murder and see what all comes up! There was a serial killer here in Virginia years ago (has since been put to death) who used to only enter homes that the door was unlocked - not that he wasn't capable of breaking in - but in his twisted mind he thought that the people in unlocked homes WANTED him to come in and murder them.

sheila222 said...

You are correct, Mel, it could have been much worse; this particular fellow was only after some quick cash- he left the credit cards, AAA, AARP cards (now I am laughing) alone.

Bert Bananas said...

Don't worry, Sheila, Obama is working on this problem. Soon you'll have no money to be stolen.

schell said...

How awful! Like Tree said, you'll make me think twice about not locking my doors.

Anonymous said...

MAn, Sheila. Glad to know you are safe--sad to know that nowhere is safe.

emma said...

Was March better?
Was April better?
Was May better?