Sometimes People Suck…

So I’m on the couch tonight at around 10:20 working remotely on a client’s server. Kids and wife are asleep, and I’m about to wrap it up for the night when I hear something outside on the street. [The front of the house is about 35-40 feet from the street.] Was a little bit of an unusual sound, but I initially disregarded, thinking it was just some debris on the road (like a flattened aluminum can) being run over by the car going by.

But it bugs me a little. I finish shutting down for the night, brush my teeth, and then decide that it’s bugging me a little too much to ignore. I go outside and check the cars–mine first, not because it’s mine but because a few months back, it had a window smashed out in the middle of the night. No, my car’s fine. Check the van…and find out that the rear window is smashed out.

Yeah, the van. The kid carrier. The vehicle that can carry the entire family.

So this one’s going to be a doozy, and enough that we’re most likely going to need to use insurance. But even still, that’s $500 for the deductible. It also happens to be a lot of money at this point in time…

So I’m on the couch tonight at around 10:20 working remotely on a client’s server. Kids and wife are asleep, and I’m about to wrap it up for the night when I hear something outside on the street. [The front of the house is about 35-40 feet from the street.] Was a little bit of…