Someone Stole My Car Stereo Today (1179 hits)
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Submitted by <murphydog5.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-05-09 04:58:06 EDT
Today I went to 24 Hour Fitness to get a little workout in. I walk in to the place, they scan my card, they say "Fantastic! Have a good workout!" and I roll my eyes and hop on the treadmill for about a half hour and then I walk pass the person that said "weeeeeeee, fantastic" and I return to my car in the parking lot. I slide my key in the door, sit down in the seat, and disarm my alarm. Before turning the ignition to get the hell away from 24 Hour Fitness and closer to Quizno's and Jimmy's Batch 81 Three Pepper Chili Sauce on Ham and Swiss toasted buns with fresh lettuce, tomatoe, and onions I look at my passenger seat. There, I see the plastic rectangular frame that looks much like the frame of a car stereo. That wasn't there before.
"Huh?" I think.
And I look at my stereo. Missing. The entire plastic covering that wraps around my heater/air-conditioner, the setting to control the air/feet/defrost/defrost-feet control and so forth is MISSING and I think, oh shit. My next instinct is to check all the locks on my car... sure enough, passenger door is unlocked. Then I check my back seat for any items missing-- no, I'm O.K., then my console between passenger and driver to see if they took my wallet-- no. Then I sit back in my seat and get pissed. "Those fuckers," I think. They break in to MY car and steal MY car stereo.
I sit for a few moments, look around, and consider the possibilities. My car has an alarm in which you must punch in a four-digit numerical pass code in fifteen seconds upon entering or else said car will go "WONK, WONK, WONK" for about three minutes. What could anyone do in fifteen seconds?
Well, obviously, steal my CAR STEREO.
Fuckers.
But no big deal, I think. My car stereo is worth about, generously, fifty bucks. Hawked, I'd go down to twenty-twenty five. I have more in my wallet, and, after unfolding it and peeling it open- they didn't take that. Fuckers must have been scared after hearing the "WONK WONK WONK" and ran away. So, by now, it's not so much the value of my car stereo that's pissing me off. IT'S THE C.D. INSIDE!! Fucking "Tears for Fears."
Those BASTARDS!
You know, I can remember the time that I bought that C.D. I was in a pinch... I had a class in less than a half hour and I thought I could squeeze in a trip to Borders to buy that fucking album because I had "Mad World" stuck in my head and I HAD to hear the original version from Tears for Fears. I was late for class, folks. I was LATE FOR CLASS BECAUSE OF THIS!
I bought the C.D. for eighteen bucks and used my finger with the longest nail to seep under the packaging and, once I got a hold, I ripped that fucker apart and cracked open the C.D. casing and pulled the disc out and fed it to my C.D. player and put my car in reverse and turned the volume up and rolled down my windows and at once music filled my car...
I smiled.
The lyrics sang, chorus-like, "And I find kinda funny, I find it kinda sad, the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had..."
I smiled. I was late for class but nothing else mattered. "Tears for Fears" was blaring on my cheap car radio and I smiled damnit, I smiled.
After today, no more. I will never smile again.
Because of THOSE FUCKERS. They didn't just take my car stereo. They stole a MEMORY! For that, they are unforgivable. I hope that, in one day, in God's eyes, they will receive their just sentence. Not in mine, in God's eyes. This is how much this whole "episode" has effected me:
Now, any time I hear TFF on ANY car stereo, I will wonder... was it THEM!? Did THEY do it?
Did THEY gauge out my soul? Did THEY steal a memory from a good person? Was it them?
Murphy
User Reviews
Submitted by Anjie (user info) at 2004-05-12 13:50:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
When I first read this line ( was in a pinch... I had a class in less than a half hour and I thought I could squeeze in a trip to Borders to buy that fucking album because I had "Mad World" stuck in my head)
I read it as "I was in Phinch..." I had to re-read it a couple of time before it looked right...
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2004-05-11 20:55:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
damn murph... download it...
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2004-05-10 22:11:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yes, but..... how in the hell did they get in your car!?!?
Submitted by antluvdog (user info) at 2004-05-10 21:57:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It was me. I came up to Portland and stole your fucking stereo.
I just HAD to hear that Tears for Fears song!!!!!!! And I was late for work, goddamnit!
Submitted by mumbo_jumbo (user info) at 2004-05-09 23:50:50 EDT (#)
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Submitted by wijormiclat (user info) at 2004-05-09 23:40:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Murphy's back! Yay!
Submitted by CunningVision (user info) at 2004-05-09 20:02:05 EDT (#)
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If someone ever stole my CDs I'd cry. I have upwards of 700 discs in four books.
Submitted by Spiral_Abraxis (user info) at 2004-05-09 19:56:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I feel your pain.
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2004-05-09 19:46:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Wasn't me, I was in cottage grove.
Submitted by WiKi (user info) at 2004-05-09 12:33:41 EDT (#)
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It was probably the same assholes that stole MY stereo. And my entire collection of CD's.
One day I will find them and revenge will be mine.
REVENGE!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA
ok, I'm done.
Submitted by Fabish (user info) at 2004-05-09 12:32:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Oh, and one more thing, how's the story coming along?
Submitted by Fabish (user info) at 2004-05-09 12:32:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
The part where you said, 'They come into MY car and steal MY stereo,' reminded me of the beginning of the movie The Big Lebowski when The Dude is pissed off and says, 'They come into MY house and pee on MY rug.'
Good to see you back and posting on Ubersite, Murph. Hopefully they won't be so sporadic.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-05-09 12:16:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
don't ever leave ubersite that long again.
Submitted by Nator (user info) at 2004-05-09 12:08:18 EDT (#)
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Yay, I thought you died, Murphy. Tears for Fears is horrible, by the way.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-05-09 08:27:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Heh.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-05-09 05:49:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 because 'Shout' by Tears for Fears is awesome. You, sir, have good taste.
"Shout, Shout; let it all out!
These are the things we can do without -
Come on!"
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2004-05-09 05:47:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
In any car older than a '98 that's not a GM, I can get the radio out in roughly 2 minutes. In any japanese car, that time goes down to a little over a minute.
Mustang radios are by far the easiest. This consists of 30 seconds to pop it out of the dash, and 3 seconds to cut the wires.
Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2004-05-09 05:10:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I feel your pain. I've had 2 car stereos stolen.
On a happier note I have that CD
If you would like me to burn you a copy and mail it to you drop me a line mystiamoon.at.yahoo.com