You Never Understand Until It Happens To You...

What happened I hear you asking. Well, I got robbed. I was carpooling home from work with co-worker friends, we stopped off for about an hour at one of their houses, came back out to the van in which we carpool in, to find the glove compartment opened, and it's contents thrown everywhere, and my backpack, which had all my work stuff in it, including a headset that is worth a fair chunk of change, as well as my brand new (just bought it today) Nintendo DS lite, gone. The other bags in the car were still there, and their contents still present, just my whole backpack, gone.

I know this is not as bad as being mugged, or having your car stolen. I get that. The only thing I'd ever had stolen from me before, besides my dignity, was a pair of running shoes. This hurts a little more than the shoes I must say. I mean, first off, I worked very hard to buy the DS, it was a belated xmas gift to myself, and the work stuff that was in my backpack, well, I can't put a price on it, because I really can't estimate it's full potential value, I can say I know the headset that was taken that I use at work, fetch about $500.00 or more. Further more, the fact I may have my wages garnished to pay for it, even more upsetting.

So aside from having the worst day at work I've had since I started, add this to the mix and it makes for a pretty crappy way to end the week. So, for those of you that have been violated in this way, regardless of the value, that feeling you get deep down in your tummy, I totally get that now, never did before, I do now, and I hope to never have to feel this way again.