About 2 weeks ago (Thursday April 15) I came home from work at 5:00 to find the door from our carport into our house wide open!! At first I thought that I had forgotten to lock the door (I am the last one to leave my house in the morning), but then I remembered checking the door to see if it was locked before I left. Then I thought that maybe my roommates dad was there, but he never leaves the door open. Then I thought that maybe my roommate was at her parents house and had run home real quick to grab something, but then I remembered she was still at work. So I cautiously walked in and said, "Hello. Is anyone here?" At first, everything looked normal. Then I walked into my room and realized that my computer wasn't on my bed. I thought maybe one of my roommates hid it as a joke. I walked into my other roommates room and saw that her bedspread was flipped up and her computer was gone. Then I walked into my other roommates room and noticed that her window was wide open and the screen was gone!!! I realized then that we had been robbed!! It was a snatch and grab job as they took my roommates tv, the two laptops, 2 of my cameras (luckily one was broken), my roommates guitar, some make-up, and few other odds and ends. It was a weird feeling knowing that some strange man touched my things, and for about a week afterwards I got a little anxious everday coming home from work thinking that someone might have broken in again. My roommates home owners insurance doesn't cover my laptop, so now its on the huntdown for a good laptop that isn't too expensive. I'm not sad about the computer (it was on it's way out anyway), I'm sad about the memories lost (i.e. all my pictures, schoolwork, English manual I made in Japan, etc.). Lessons I have learned from this experience:
1.) Get a gun
2.) Get a security system
3.) Get renters insurance
4.) Get an external harddrive and back up all my files and put it somewhere apart from computer
5.) Get a safe
One good thing about the whole experience: I got help from a hot police officer and an even hotter banker (when I changed my bank account)!! :)
