I guess I deserved it, what with all the boosterisms I bleat about Read, rural and country living.  Comeuppance, thy name is ‘theft’.  Yep!  That’s right!  Got robbed again!  This time on the old Surge road near the ‘middle’ lakes.  I had my old boat trailer parked there and it was well entrenched when we left two weeks ago and yet was gone when we returned home today.

Broken in-to at the hotel and relieved of a rear window and Xmas presents last week.  Bummer!  And then, after denigrating the urban jungle to all and sundry, I find that rural thieves have been just as bad!  My trailer being GONE when I come home is some kind of retribution for dissing the city, I guess.  No place, it seems, is safe!

(By the way, ‘dissing’ does not show up as an error on my spell check.  What has our language come to?)

The trailer is not valuable.  Probably replace it for $5-750 or so.  Maybe $1,000.  But that means a minimum of $1200-1500 in losses this trip.  That kinda cuts into the revenue stream somewhat.   Two steps forward, one step back.  VERY reminiscent of my working life.  I am convinced that NOT working works better for me when you ‘net’ it out.  

And, of course, ICBC doesn’t cover it.  The thieves tossed the plate and we found it.  Wouldn’t you know, we had not renewed the insurance.  The trailer was slated for conversion to a funicular carrier and we knew we weren’t going to use it as a trailer so we didn’t ‘keep the insurance up’.  Ergo: no coverage.  Which is neither here nor there, really.  It would have been valued at less than $500, I am sure, and so the deductible would have taken care of most of that.

I am not so enamored of insurance companies at the best of times but ICBC really sucks even if it was entirely my own fault this time.  C’mon, I have to vent at someone. 

Tís the season, eh?

On a happier note, the dogs are still with Judith.  Thank God!  But they’ll come home tomorrow and that should end the troubles, I think.  Bad things happen in ‘3’s’ and that’s two thefts and the return of the dogs!  Pretty bad.  But that should be it for the bad news for awhile.

Unless Sal reads that last part……………..then it will be 4-parts trouble.