I travelled to Manchester yesterday to make a presentation at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Manchester.
I decided to borrow my youngest daughter’s new car as she’s at uni and it would give it a run and I would then fill it with petrol for her for the weekend when she’s home for a visit.
I parked in the new, brightly lit car park opposite the Crowne Plaza Hotel and left my car, amongst hundreds of others on the fourth floor.
I had decided to take my iTouch with me to listen to and just as I was leaving the car I decided to pop it into the glove compartment that was otherwise empty.
Ironically I always tell my daughter, who has only been driving on a full licence for about 9 months, to not leave anything on show and to leave the glove compartment open to show any would be thieves that there is nothing worth stealing. She always looks at me as if I am making these things up as she still has that wonderful attitude of the young…that it is only old gits’ like me who worry unnecessarily about such things and that almost everyone in the world is basically good!!
However on this occasion I ignored my own advice and left the iTouch in the closed glove compartment. If I hadnt’ then there was absolutely nothing of any value whatsoever in the car.
After giving my presentation I returned about 5 hours later to the still brightly lit car park only to find that some b—–d had smashed open the passenger window and opened the glove compartment and taken my beloved iTouch.
I was absolutely blazing for a number of reasons:
1) Blazing mad that somebody, probably looking for something easy to sell to buy drugs or whatever had simply chosen my daughter’s car out of all the others nearby to smash up purely on the basis that there JUST MIGHT be something worth stealing in the closed glove comapartment.
2) Blazing mad that our society still produces opportunistic thieves like this.
3) Blazing mad that I had left my iTouch in the glove compartment.
4) Blazing mad that I had not left the glove compartment open and empty which would have prevented the thief having to smash the window just in case.
5) Blazing mad that there was absoluetly NOBODY around in that brightly lit city centre car park to whom I could report the break-in. Not for any other reason than to tell them that there brightly lit car park housed thieving gits!! Nobody at all!
6) Blazing mad that I know have to pay a load of cash to get the window repaired.
7) Blazing mad that the iTouch is probably in a bin or canal somewhere as it is no good to the thief as it had a password that they would never be able to guess so they could not use the thing anyway.
So…I’m blazing mad!!
Moral of this rambling post? Never leave anything in your car of ANY value and always leave your glove compartment wide open to prevent these low-lives smashing your property up just to check.
Now…back to selling Nile Cruise Holidays.
