brioche
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So we had a "Play Day" at our school on Friday, where I had all 40 of my kids on one day, and things were just crazy. I tucked my wallet in the drawer of my desk and left. Well, half an hour later, if that, I saw all the people milling around setting up the lunch and thought, I don't like this, I'm going to take my wallet and give it to the secretary for the day while I'm outside, it has $100 in it...
You see, I lost my keys to my room a while ago. I have talked to the principal and talked to the caretaker and am waiting for the Board to come rekey my door, and they are taking their sweet fucking time about it. So I couldn't just lock the door.
And then, I go to the drawer and it's ajar and I think, oh fuckety fuck. And yes, someone has taken my entire wallet. If you are going to be in my room long enough to go through the drawers and find where I've put it (which surprised the policemen) why can't you stay two minutes more and pull out the money and credit cards and LEAVE ME MY FUCKING IDENTIFICATION?
I spent the rest of the morning calling people and talking to the police. He got someone else's wallet - went into her purse and took just her wallet - and did the same thing at a dry cleaner's before he came to the school.
This is the thing that pisses me off, though. At least two people saw him. One was a volunteer, and that's okay, she doesn't know people, but even she looked at him oddly and asked if she could help him. The other was an educational assistant, who knows everyone in the school. He should have stopped the guy. The police told him so. They were shocked that not only did this guy have time to search for things in the rooms but then could wander around unmolested. I'm still kind of pissed about it. It's Saturday and I have no access to my bank accounts, $5 in cash to my name (that my mum gave me, for Chrissake), and a temporary licence. That's all. I was only able to get that with my car ownership and birth certificate, which I stopped carrying around a few years ago when I found out how much it was worth on the black market because it's useful for identity theft.
I'm out $100, plus replacement costs on cards, plus I had frequent buyer stuff in there, plus the money it'll take to monitor my credit to make sure no one uses the ID illegally. Like I needed this. Unless it all turns up in a trash can with the other wallets.
Fuckety Fuck.
You see, I lost my keys to my room a while ago. I have talked to the principal and talked to the caretaker and am waiting for the Board to come rekey my door, and they are taking their sweet fucking time about it. So I couldn't just lock the door.
And then, I go to the drawer and it's ajar and I think, oh fuckety fuck. And yes, someone has taken my entire wallet. If you are going to be in my room long enough to go through the drawers and find where I've put it (which surprised the policemen) why can't you stay two minutes more and pull out the money and credit cards and LEAVE ME MY FUCKING IDENTIFICATION?
I spent the rest of the morning calling people and talking to the police. He got someone else's wallet - went into her purse and took just her wallet - and did the same thing at a dry cleaner's before he came to the school.
This is the thing that pisses me off, though. At least two people saw him. One was a volunteer, and that's okay, she doesn't know people, but even she looked at him oddly and asked if she could help him. The other was an educational assistant, who knows everyone in the school. He should have stopped the guy. The police told him so. They were shocked that not only did this guy have time to search for things in the rooms but then could wander around unmolested. I'm still kind of pissed about it. It's Saturday and I have no access to my bank accounts, $5 in cash to my name (that my mum gave me, for Chrissake), and a temporary licence. That's all. I was only able to get that with my car ownership and birth certificate, which I stopped carrying around a few years ago when I found out how much it was worth on the black market because it's useful for identity theft.
I'm out $100, plus replacement costs on cards, plus I had frequent buyer stuff in there, plus the money it'll take to monitor my credit to make sure no one uses the ID illegally. Like I needed this. Unless it all turns up in a trash can with the other wallets.
Fuckety Fuck.
