Saturday, I volunteered to proctor the Foreign Service Written Exam here in Lima, so that 29 young hopefuls could take the first step towards a career that I really like and think makes a bit of a difference. yeah, it meant giving up my Saturday, getting to the Embassy at 07.00, and they didn’t even offer to pay for lunch or anything, but I volunteered to do it because I thought it was a good thing to do.
Seven hours later, I come out to find that someone has broken the side-view mirror off my brand-new car that was parked in the secure lot of the compound, and hasn’t left a note, a card, or blessed anything. The local guards didn’t see anything, the surveillance cameras missed that area, as I parked in a dead spot between 2 cameras, and nobody who was there for the Easter Egg hunt or the Embassy games saw anything.
I have really good insurance, so I probably won’t wind up paying anything, but this just rankles a lot. The fact that someone did that is bad enough, but to not leave a note is just effin’ ghetto. To make matters worse, the only people with access to that area on the weekends are other cleared Americans who work at the Embassy, so it had to have been someone I work with.
Luckily, I had a roll of black duct tape in the car emergency kit, so was able to rig it in place, but this pissed me off royally.