Things I learned tonight, or “I wouldn’t hold out much hope for the tape deck.”

1. There is crime and drug addic­tion even in the rural river­side nowheresville of Gar­diner, Maine.
2. Park and rides are not exempt from vehi­cle burglary.
3. Peo­ple who steal shit from cars don’t dis­crim­i­nate based on the car’s age or body type. Even a 97 Hyundai Sonata with mul­ti­ple hail­storm dents can be a victim.
4. My taste in music is too obscure to merit thievery.
5. My car stereo, how­ever, is not too old to avoid such a fate. It was appar­ently an expen­sive top of the line unit 7 years ago. Now, it’s likely being sold for $20 to score some­one some meth.
6. The police in Gar­diner are much more respon­sive and invested in sit­u­a­tions like this than, say, the police in The Big Lebowski.
7. Duct tape does not stick well to either plas­tic trash bags or car win­dow frames in below-freezing temperatures.

Let’s see…2006 sucked. 2007 is already kick­ing my ass. Is it too early to start reserv­ing an amaz­ing 2008?

Point­less Adden­dum: Appar­ently, the Fire­fox Per­for­manc­ing plu­gin I orig­i­nally used to post this is now insert­ing an annoy­ing “pow­ered by Per­for­manc­ing” tagline at the end of the post that needs to be man­u­ally edited out in Word­Press. Nice.

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