Weekend Open Thread

The only other reason I'm watching is because I feel obligated. Everyone will be talking about it tomorrow and it's hard to explain how I watch just about every other sporting event but just am not interested in this.

Where are you going?

Oh wait - we talked about this before... I'm only on my first glass.

Tuesday night, I go out to dinner with my best friend, who was moving to Georgia the next day. On our way to dinner, we stop at Best Buy to buy her a computer. We leave there and drive about 10 miles to the restaurant.

We come out of dinner. She gets in the car, I get in the car. I say, "I don't remember walking over that broken glass on our way into dinner." We think nothing of it. I put the car in reverse and look over my shoulder. Something looks wet on the back seat, so I reach back to see what it is. It's broken glass. She looks back too and sees that the window behind me (driver side, back door) is busted in. There's glass everywhere. Apparently someone followed us from Best Buy, broke the window, and stole the laptop. They only took the laptop. They left about $600 worth of software and jump drives. They also weren't interested in my checkbook, satellite radio (portable), or anything else.

So then we waited for the police, filled out a report, etc. It was about 2 am before I got to bed that night. Then I found out that I'm pretty much stuck on paying for the whole thing. The window was less than my deductible. The computer goes through my homeowners and not the car insurance. The homeowners insurance people told me that if I made a claim for the computer, they'd most likely cancel my policy when it came up for renewal. Then the brand new car was in the shop for three days, so I had to pay for a rental. All in all, it was a pretty expensive week.