It just ticks me off when my spouse drives my car and brings it back with no gas
Then when i told him it needed gas yesterday he said.He will get it later...
I said :Well when is later??
I need gas now!!I wont have enough to take our girl to school tomorrow.So he got really angry and stomped off to go get some!
Now had i went and got it myself and handed him the receipt.He would have yelled at me for spending money!!
He just ticks me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes you can't live with them, and you can't live without them! (((Kell)))

I am struggling with something this morning.

It's a big *WHY???*

On a scale of things it's probably insignificent to most, but someone stole my daughter's car yesterday from a shopping car park. A week after her 18th birthday she goes in to get her hair cut and came out to get in her car and it was not there. She's lost her grandmother, a kidney, and now her much loved little car all in the space of 11 months and she's grieving as if she's lost a person. Now we have no car. It's gone.

What ticks me off is this... she waited for an hour for a security guard to come to her while she stood in this car park where her car had been just a couple of hours earlier. He never came.

What also ticks me off is this... We contacted the police beat in the shopping centre and they said they were not being paid overtime and it was time to go home so we needed to contact a different station.

What ticks me off is this... That after actually making contact with a 4th police station, we were totally shocked that they didn't care. That they acted so nonchalantly and as if it was nothing. Like oh well, there goes another one.

What ticks me off is the circumstances of this world that lead my beautiful daughter to say some of the really sad things she said to me last night. Now this morning she's yet to wake up to an empty garage. Like I said, it's just a thing, right? No, it's more than a thing, believe me. It's a life changing experience and for so many reasons that I'll just not go into.

Well, now that's off my chest... off to have a better day hopefully.

oh man lara....

i'm not even sure what to say. your poor sweet girl. this is not one of those life lessons she should have had to learn.

will insurance cover any of it?

not that it compares at all, but my son and other team mates of his have lost so much soccer gear it is pathetic. the coaches and the school won't do a thing. not even the police.

pass one of these on to your sweety. and a happy late birthday from texas.

aaawww Lara
I'm so sorry{{{{Bighugs}}}}
We had a car stolen a few years ago...It makes you feel so violated...

Oh, Lara - what a a horrible, painful year. I am so sorry. I hope it gets easier and much, much better.
Love and prayer to you and your daughter --

Love and hugs to Lara and daughter.

Sometimes, I hate the police. It's things like this that give them such of a bad name...

I think the Universe must have heard what I was saying this morning. I was crying and upset when I posted messages this morning.

You wouldn't read about it, they found the car.

We had to get a lift. It was found in some yuk suburb of a city about 100 kilometres away. A police officer found it there in the middle of the night. He was doing patrol. The area is one that is somewhat renowned for breakins and thefts etc.. They phoned here just after I got offline this morning. It was towed to a holding yard, then we had to wait for it to be fingerprinted. We were expecting the worst, but the damage isn't so bad I suppose. At least we have the car back. They bent everything around the steering column and snapped some huge part that connects the ignition switch to the steering column. I know the name of it but just can't think of it at the moment. They stole about 100 cds that she had in a special folder in the glove box, no cases, just the cds. They've broken the locks. They did a few other things including something to the immobilizer.

Anyway, basically it's back. No insurance. Insurance ran out and with all the surgeries and medical procedures the past 8 months, we couldn't afford the full insurance, so had no fire and theft at all. That will be rectified as soon as the car is fixed I guess. Paying out the $1500 to get it fully insured again would have been much cheaper than what we're facing now... but it's back. It's not damaged on the outside, apart from the locks... which is totally remarkable. The inside is a mess. They also wrecked the sunroof, forgot about that, but heck, it's back. They even put petrol in the thing. Probably did a drive through runner though I suspect. If they put petrol/gas in the car, it means they'd be caught under surveillance camera somewhere, even if they did a runner.

ugh, what a nightmare. I know it's just a *thing* but it sent us spiralling into reactive depression I swear... both of us. Not kidding. Sometimes things just pile up and up and wham, can't take anymore, and when I heard my daughter talking the way she was last night, it scared me. It scared me because although my life was very difficult from early childhood, I lived in a different age, a different time, where we actually were able to leave the doors open and the windows open and we were safe. Now, it's different and she feels as if she's a little ant in a giant universe and when my daughter gets like that she is scared. She's feeling much better now, and so am I, but I've lived all my life without knowing anyone who's had a car totally stolen like that.

You won't believe this, but it's true. On the way back home just now in quite heavy traffic, stopped at the lights, and this guy in the car next to us, total stranger, was gesturing us to wind down the window. He said "Don't wanna buy a plasma tv and a *brandname* stereo do ya?" Person driving us home was on the ball and said "wow, sounds great, where'd you get it" and the guy replied "your neighbour". Talk about a scary freaking world. arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggh

We're covered in fingerprinting powder and the car is all dirty and feels violated, but it's back and it can be fixed and we can go out again when it is to get places and carry the wheelchair in the boot and all the rest.

Oh what a day. Thankyou all for caring. I'm sorry if I sound a little spaced out, but it's been an horrid day.

*sigh

p.s. the thing about the security officer and the police officers... you know what gets to me. What an awful job that would be. It's still no excuse for the way the officers acted and I'm sure they're not all like that. They apparently lost 2 cars from that same carpark yesterday and they were both found 100 k away in the same suburb. hmmnnn They sounded so used to dealing with all this type of thing as if it was barely important, and like I said, in the scheme of things, it's nowhere near as important as some other things. I find it just so very sad that people go out of their way to harm others and steal from others and all of that. Some kid stealing a car from another kid. What's with that?

I'm just thankful that it wasn't taken to some backyard garage somewhere and disassembled in and hour and sold off for parts. That's what usually happens. The fact we got this type of car back is nothing short of amazing.

OK, I'll stop now. Had to let it all out.

OMG. I just looked at another forum I write on (not NT) and I have received a pm from someone saying "You just caught my eye that you have 666 posts. Please pray that you won't be affected by demonic forces. I will pray for you.

Is it the moon or something??? Why would someone say that, I don't even believe in demonic forces Is that how some people are being nice to me or something. I just don't understand this at all.

(((Lara))) First - I'm SO very happy that your daughter's car is back and can be fixed .... that's just wonderful. Let's hope your "upswing" continues at full pace. Around here too ...... a stolen car is rarely seen again.

The way I see it ... The 666 thing -- to be completely ignored -- is from the Revelations book of the New Testament in the Bible. In some interpretations, it's a number that will mark the "devil" when he comes. So, some people watch for that number all the time ...... if you count 666 cracks in a sidewalk - oooooooooooo - watch out !! If your dog is 666 days old - now what??
Some day that number will have real meaning -- today it doesn't. And today I hope you have 667 postings and the person who sent you the PM can relax