What an Oakland day: Got in my car to take Ruby to school this morning and discovered someone had been napping there (Door must've been unlocked. Should I be grateful they didn't break glass to break in? Should I be glad to provide temporary shelter for someone in need?).
Thru the day I'm realizing more things they took with them when they left, including:
- Ruby's favorite jacket and art supplies in a bag from Grandma (steal from me, but don't steal from my daughter!)
- the shoebox donation that was supposed to go to a poor child overseas but I missed the deadline so I left it in my car to return (should I be glad it went to someone presumably poor and local?)
- my file of special orders for shop customers. (Classic: very important to me, totally useless to a thief. Hoping I'm wrong about this one and it turns up somehow, it just doesn't make any sense.)
I know these are just things, and I will be fine, but still feel a little BITTER. It's not right to have your things taken from you like that. But then a lot of things are not right, like why some have so little and others have so much. What is the take-home? Lock your doors? Don't leave stuff in your car? Or leave them unlocked and welcome the needy? Maybe leave them some food in there for next time?
Oh, and then I went to the shop and someone shoplifted two pairs of shoes, I think right before my very eyes and I couldn't do anything about it. BUMMER. Or, helping a needier person??
How do you deal with this and other less lovely aspects of our fair city?
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