Remember this new radio?

Um, it’s going to be a little more expensive than $280. It’s now going to cost me $780. That includes my $500 deductible since it was STOLEN this morning at my workplace in broad ass daylight. Between 8 and 8:30am, to be exact.

I got to work at 8 and at 8:30 a coworker asked me if I knew who had a red SUV, because their passenger window had been broken. I went to look out the window and he pointed at my car and said that that car’s alarm was going off. I said, “That’s MY car. And I don’t have an alarm.” But my hazards were blinking.

I went downstairs and saw this:

Yeah, not JUST the radio, but the entire center console. The hazards were blinking because the hazard button used to be connected to that whole thing. Know what else was there? The A/C controls, the defrost, all that stuff that makes riding in the car pleasant.

Know what used to be in the glove compartment? A 3rd generation iPod, an iPod charger, the cord that connected the iPod to my old radio, a phone charger . . . My car was locked, they’d used something to get into the passenger side, because that window isn’t working anymore.

The other girl’s car whose window was broken didn’t have her radio stolen, or anything else. But she has a car alarm. I’d always thought car alarms are stupid because if an alarm goes off in a parking lot, people don’t really bat an eyelash anymore. But it scared off the thieves enough to not take her radio, so that’s something!

The common denominator for the cars? They were the only 2 in the employee lot that didn’t have factory radios. And neither of us had bothered to remove the faces. I did for the first week but I thought that people who carried around their radio faces were just paranoid. And I, for one, wasn’t going to live MY life in fear. No sir. My car had never been broken into before, I was sure it would be fiiiiiiine.

My poor violated baby is at the repair shop and I’m eligible for a rental car, which I won’t need until Monday since we’re doing the MS 150 tomorrow. My iPod and other things are covered under my renter’s insurance, which means . . . another $500 deductible. No thanks.

I was telling my boss about why I got the after-market radio in the first place and she cut me off.

“Wait, you mean you had a Honda Anti-Theft car stereo that you had changed out-”

“YES. For a Theft car stereo.”

She laughed so hard I had to just ignore her and go back to work.

Well, at least I can stop worrying about how to change the clock over to daylight savings time.