Bummer…
May 3, 2007 by john
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Last week I joined some friends for dinner in Seattle. It was a nice evening, until I returned to my car and discovered it had been broken into. A kind bystander had witnessed the break-in and called the police to report the incident, and he was nice enough to hang around until I returned. Although I’m not all the pleased about the crime, I think overall my faith in humanity is slightly improved because of the kindness of a stranger.
It’s just a thing. The window has been replaced and I am moving on.
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You left out the “there-was-nothing-of-value-in-the-car” part… it’s a bummer that you paid $$$ (and your time) to have the window replaced, but fortunate that there wasn’t anything of real value in the car. Lousy bums!
So true. My window was smashed for a couple of guitar cables and a tuner pedal.
My experience in this event yields an interesting lesson (and perhaps a moral debate):
(1) It cost me $250 to replace my window.
(2) Nobody really benefited from that expense, except maybe the window replacement guy. The state of my world is pretty much the same as before the incident, minus the expense and time lost.
(3) So, if someone had approached me that night and said “Listen, I’m going to break your car window or you can just give me $250 now and save yourself the hassle”, what would I have done?
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