reverse karma?

for those of you not familiar with the city of san francisco, there are nice parts of san francisco and there are not-so-nice parts of san francisco. the most not-so-nice neighborhood in san francisco is almost certainly the area knows as the tenderloin. it just so happens that i recently started volunteering somewhat regularly in that area. after getting off a volunteering shift this past weekend, i found that the tenderloin had shown its gratitude to me in the form of a smashed window for my car.

the front passenger window was now a million pieces scattered throughout the front of my car. the glove compartment and center console had been rifled through. while i had nothing of value in those compartments, the cordless drill and box of checks certainly might have proven valuable to the smash and grab thief had he (or she!) bothered to check the back seat. really, the only thing that was taken from my car was my GPS system. so i am a GPS boi no longer. i had the GPS system for but a few months and had logged just under a hundred hours of driving time and a max speed of 118 mph (a satellite glitch, i swear!).

sometimes when you give to the community, you end up giving a little more than you might have originally anticipated. i just hope my GPS is performing admirably on a shopping cart or wherever it's new home is.