breaky new year!

i go downstairs prepared to drive to work for the first time in two weeks, to find that my car’s been broken into again. i suppose “broken into” is not technically correct, since i no longer lock it in order to prevent people from slashing the convertible top or smashing the window. regardless, it’s been burgled. gone is nothing much, as i don’t keep anything really of value inside because of this, but the choice of things they did take is always curious: they didn’t take my nice rei wool hat that i had lost until now, but they took the bright red calvin klein windbreaker i keep in there just for emergencies and had been passed up on two previous break-ins. cell phone charger gone, as is the decoy cell phone charger as well as the new ipod charger (do crackheads have ipods?). they may have taken my tire pressure gauge as well, which i’m sure will do them a world of good.

i keep thinking, this is what i want, right? i want them to not slash my top when breaking into my car. because i can replace all that crap, but it’s a pain to repair or fix my top. again. but then i think now the crackhead knows, “look, it’s the miata that’s never locked. let’s go steal some more crappy stuff!” i think what i really want is for them to STOP STEALING STUFF FROM MY CAR.

speaking of which, my car seems to have decided today that it also needs a new master clutch cylinder. so much for pretending to work. at work, that is.