Well, there hasn't been more than little over a week since my last confession, but this time there is something to tell.
The new year started off well otherwise, except that our car was stolen.
We spent the last days of Christmas at my parents' house, then drove almost 200 miles back to Helsinki on Dec 27th. I drove the car to a nearby free parking lot and left it there. When we were going to have a dinner with some friends a few days ago, I went off to get the car and I got this funny feeling on the way to the parking lot that 'what if the car wasn't there' -kind of thing. I thought it was funny because I normally don't think of such things, but this time I did, and when I got there, the car was gone.
My first reaction was that of total disbelief, running through all possibilities of where else I could have left the car and if I just didn't recall the place of the car correctly. A few minutes of hard thinking led to the inevitable conclusion that the vehicle must be stolen. There was nothing more to be done than to phone the police.
The car was a '90 Honda Civic, so it wasn't a great financial loss as such, but we need a car and now we have none. And we can't afford to get one. I think even if we manage to get some money for the stolen car from the insurance company, it still wouldn't be enough to get another one.. save for a totally rusted Russian tin can of bolts and nuts..
The person/s behind this are probably some drunk punks who decided to go for a joyride on new year's eve or criminals who need a car for some gig or other. The worst case would probably be the joyriders, because then the car might not be totally smashed up, and then the insurance company wouldn't pay for irreparable damage but would give just a little money but not really enough to fix the car properly.
Well, anyway, it's going to cost and that sucks.
The new year started off well otherwise, except that our car was stolen.
We spent the last days of Christmas at my parents' house, then drove almost 200 miles back to Helsinki on Dec 27th. I drove the car to a nearby free parking lot and left it there. When we were going to have a dinner with some friends a few days ago, I went off to get the car and I got this funny feeling on the way to the parking lot that 'what if the car wasn't there' -kind of thing. I thought it was funny because I normally don't think of such things, but this time I did, and when I got there, the car was gone.
My first reaction was that of total disbelief, running through all possibilities of where else I could have left the car and if I just didn't recall the place of the car correctly. A few minutes of hard thinking led to the inevitable conclusion that the vehicle must be stolen. There was nothing more to be done than to phone the police.
The car was a '90 Honda Civic, so it wasn't a great financial loss as such, but we need a car and now we have none. And we can't afford to get one. I think even if we manage to get some money for the stolen car from the insurance company, it still wouldn't be enough to get another one.. save for a totally rusted Russian tin can of bolts and nuts..
The person/s behind this are probably some drunk punks who decided to go for a joyride on new year's eve or criminals who need a car for some gig or other. The worst case would probably be the joyriders, because then the car might not be totally smashed up, and then the insurance company wouldn't pay for irreparable damage but would give just a little money but not really enough to fix the car properly.
Well, anyway, it's going to cost and that sucks.