Joyride...!!!!

standards of living .. i believe everyone should have them .. i mean not just for living ... other stuff too .. like people should have standards for even crimes they commit ... you know ... if i had some self respect for myself ... and i had to commit a crime .. i would make sure that it's worth committing it ... according to my standards(pretty high they are ... mind you ) and keeps up my reputation .. like François Toulour of Oceans 12 ... he had pretty high standards too ... so much so .. that he wanted to be declared the best thief in the world .. (talk about having ambition !!!)
anyways .. to make a long story short ... last weekend somebody stole my car ... right from the parking lot in front of the apartment ... and parking lots as they are, have all kinds of cars .. fancy ones, drooly ones(the cars dont drool .. but they'd make you drool .. ), "neighbor's envy, owner's pride" ones ... and decrepit ones too ... a parking lot is like a mall ... you'll find all ages, types and genders .. :D so my car belonged to the generation "I'm old .. but flashy" ones ... you know ... the red, two door sports model ... with a stick shift that can kick up a dust behind it ... oh and it had a moonroof too :) the only thing flashy inside was the nice deck ...
the car's been broken into before too ... (Dam'n that stereo .. ) i dont regret the stereo being stolen .. but what does pinch is the fact that it usually always has one of my "Favourite CD's" and "I spent like 30 trillion years of my life to get those songs!!!" ... hmmm .. maybe they should invent car cd players that have an "auto eject and fly away to owner" mechanisms ... atleast I wont have to spend another 30 trillion yrs .. !!
so usually when i wake up in the morning and get out to go to office ... i have this thought that yeah .. my car will be there ...albeit .. the stereo might be gone ... imagine my surprise ... when i see the whole car gone .. !!! :( ..
and I'm thinking to myself .. and asking the cop too ... "why my car?" ... sheesh .. thieves ought to have some standards ... i mean .. dudes .. if you have to steal .. go about it Danny Ocean style ... you know .. challenges et all ... have some panache ... steal all the drooly cars ...
anyways ... to really cut the story short this time .. the cops did find the car ... (They really do .. and I used to think ... they just go around handing out tickets and pretending to be in a saga of Popeye and Bluto .. ) !! but they found the car minus the battery and the seats .. (the joyriders .. must have gotten stuck to that piece of gum I couldnt get off the passengers seat ... SERVES them right !!) and ofcourse needless to mention it .. the stereo too .... and my "favourite" cd gone with it ...
have you ever realised ... how important something is to you .. when you lose it??? i feel for those cd's :)
so here i am .. hunting for cars again ... and inventing schemes to keep the joyriders away ... and maybe get a patent or two along the way for my discoveries ... and thinking to myself .. every minute ... thieves should have standards :)