So, the cops have been out to my house tonight. That usually signifies that you’re having a pleasant evening, right?
I’m so fucking pissed off.
A friend of mine came to visit today, and we had a nice afternoon. We went out for lunch, and on the way home, I stopped by the mall to pick up my daughter’s valentine’s day pics and did a little bit of shopping while we were there. When we got home, I grabbed Em, and brought her inside then went back out to get the bags that were in the car. While I was out there, I heard a car coming down our street pretty quickly. I heard it bottom out once, and then twice again. I didn’t really think much of it until I realized that the second time was accompanied by breaking glass. I turned around to see some little SUV flying down the street with some jackass hanging out of the window, holding a patio umbrella, breaking fucking mirrors off of cars.
THE ASSHOLES BROKE THE FUCKING MIRROR OUT OF MY TRUCK AS I STOOD IN MY FRONT YARD.
I can’t BELIEVE this! We live in a fairly nice neighborhood, but the street I live on is the only one going from one main road to the other with no stop signs, so people cruise through all of the time. Unfortunately, since there are no stop signs, these guys just cruised right on through and were on the main road in no time. I filed a report with the cops, not that it’ll do much good because they’re not going to be able to catch the guys (It was dark and since they were driving so fast and I was suprised I didn’t even get a decent look at their car.) so I’m going to have to pay to replace the mirror anyway.
I’m already stressed out, so that was a really shitty addition to my night. I mean, I know for them with was probably a big “Woohoo! Look what we did!” but for me, I’m thinking “Well shit, now I have to replace the mirror on my truck, it’s going to cost over $150 probably and I can’t drive the truck until I get that done. Like I don’t have enough to worry about already.” Luckily, I don’t drive the truck often, and since my husband’s out on a deployment, he’s not using it for work so getting the mirror fixed isn’t urgent. I wish people would fucking think about how their actions affect other people before they go off and do stupid shit, though.
Sorry about your mirror angelicate. Though you might not have gotten a good look at the car, maybe you’ll get lucky; they were stupid enough to engage in random vandalism, they might have been stupid enough to tape it.
Even more likely, they’ll be dumb enough to brag about it at school the next day. That’s how they caught the little fuckers who decided to drive around town shooting out windshields of parked cars with a BB gun (they got my car, my mom’s and about 30 others). The odds of six teenagers all being able to keep quiet about something like that are slightly worse than the odds of me hitting the lottery three weeks in a row, and they were caught before the end of the week. Turned out they were all A- and B-level students.
This is the point where I actually got pissed at my parents. I was away at college when this happened and they didn’t tell me about it until after everything had been settled (they pay for the damage in exchange for everyone not pressing charges). I would have willing paid for a new windshield myself out of my minimum-wage earnings for the chance press charges against them. Gee, think Brown and Dartmouth might start re-thinking those acceptances once they hear about this? One of the parents actually had the gall to complain “my poor baby won’t be able to go to West Point if he has a criminal record.” Tough. Shit. Lady. Like I a) give a flying fuck if this little shitstain you’ve whelped is upset that he actually has to face some real consequences for his actions instead of having mommy and daddy write a check and make it all go away, and b) want to see this moron in a position of potentially life-or-death authority over another human being when he’s not even mature enough to handle the responsibility of a deep-fat fryer.
Can you lobby the city council or whoever to get a stop sign or two put in, discourage traffic from taking your street? Might not takemuch more than a letter or two, maybe a petition.
I’m with Rocketeer. I once ran headlong into a school bus, and (although entirely my own fault) it was enough for the town to put up a stop sign in my honor. (No commemorative plaque, though, despite my lobbying.) That was in a small town. But Toronto city council put up traffic lights where a friend of mine was hit by a car.
Not only is that a good idea, I think the neighbors would be up for it as well. People come flying through sometimes, my neighbor’s car was hit once (hit & run), and another neighbor’s car was broken into, as well as a couple of windows being smashed. Less traffic would definitely cut down on this crap.