Jeep Radio(s)

This is a recurring theme, but it is important.

This happened a couple of months ago.  I had my Jeep parked out in front of the house, get up and find the glove box open and broke and the faceplate to the radio gone.  This is the second radio I have lost in the Jeep.  I am pissed about the radio, more pissed that it happened while it was parked in my driveway in front of house.

When I stop being mad, I start wondering why it happened.  It does not make sense to me.  They left a leather coat and a pair of expensive sun glasses sitting in the Jeep.  It bothers me a great deal, that I have Firefighter plates on the Jeep and that someone would chose it.  I call the Sheriff to come out and take a report.  To make my mood darker, this happened when I was on a roll, things really going well for me.  I am in the garage trying to find the original radio for the Jeep.  I am certainly not going to put another good radio in the Jeep if they are going to steal it.

Sheriff comes out and tells us that the whole neighborhood was hit.  There were varying degree's of theft and damage to cars.  The deputy says it does not appear to be well thought out or organized.

It starts to dawn on me that this is not a dark cloud following me, not the start of a run of bad luck.  This really is not about me at all.  This is one of the those crappy random events.  All over the neighborhood there are people getting up like me and wondering what they did to deserve this.  Like me, they are already making contingency plans on how to avoid it in the future.

We are all idiots and are breaking that cardinal rule.  You should never let what other people cannot do define what you can do.  The shortcomings or bad judgment of other people should never define or change who you are at your core.

The Jeep thing was a crappy random event.  I do not deserve a crappy radio because a thief took my good radio.   Now in retrospect, it seems stupid that for a moment I thought I may have deserved it because I left the Jeep out.  No one deserves to be have property damaged or stolen.  Some low life saw an opportunity to steal and did that.  It is not really more complex than that.

I replaced the faceplate and enjoy the hell out of the radio.  I take the faceplate with me when I have the top down.  Does not mean it will not happen again, random crappy things happen.  BUT I am not going to not enjoy the radio and the top down for all those days because of a single crappy event.

And I am not giving the dirtbag who did it another hour of my time.  Another one of those cosmic tests to see if I have my priorities straight..I do.

Live your life according to your own moral and internal compass.  Let those crappy people and events travel their own paths, do not make those events or paths your own. 

It would have been a sin to either not have a radio in the jeep or a crappy one because of one single event.  Yea, I am out $150 dollars but if you divide that by the number of days I have enjoyed the hell of a good song on a clear day...well hell it is damn cheap.

Love Dad