Sunday, September 9, 2007

The choir room is a high-crime area

I should have known better -- I left my purse in the choir room during the installation service. While we were all in the church, someone opened my purse and my wallet, and removed my Visa debit card and about $8.00 in cash. I was lucky, because there were a lot of other credit cards, cell phone, blackberry etc. that weren't touched. The poor thief apparently went straight to Wal*mart, but tried to buy more there than was in the account (we use this account just for "walking-around money" so it's not linked to the account where we keep the real money.)
The reason I should have known better is that I once had a leather jacket stolen from that same choir room. It's a good place to steal things from, because once the service starts, no-one is down that end of the hall, and thieves have free reign to take whatever they want.

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