This One's Personal

This has been a lousy day. It's my own fault, and but it isn't completely my fault. You see, my purse was stolen. From my car. Which was parked in my driveway about 10 feet from my front door. Through a series of stupidity, the car wasn't locked, so it wasn't much of a challenge for the thieves. The really stupid thing is that this is the second time in three months that this has happened to me.
Now, I am not naive enough to believe that this "couldn't happen in a neighborhood like ours", but it still makes me furious that it has. If a person cannot feel secure in their own home, there is something wrong.
I am at fault though I have committed no crime. I left MY belongings in MY car in MY driveway. There they should have stayed. However, I am the one being punished. First of all, there is the sickening feeling of someone prying into my private things. Second is the sadness over the items lost. Two lovely (expensive) purses my husband bought for me, jewelry I would have someday passed on to my three daughters, cell phone containing many precious pictures, prescription sunglasses, a little silver mirror, favorite Cross pen. Credit cards, checks and money can be replaced. The other items as well. However, it isn't the same. That was MY stuff. It was important to me in a way it isn't to any outsider.
There is also the matter of the stress and the inconvenience. I basically have no access to any money until I get a new box of checks, debit card or credit card. It is a ridiculously helpless feeling even though it won't last long.
The criminal masterminds who pulled this off used my credit card at Mickey D's, got a tank of gas and tried to get cash at an ATM. (No pin number, you brainiacs!) I am hoping against hope that the police will at least attempt to see if there is any video from the ATM camera or anywhere else, that might help nab these people. I admit it. I want JUSTICE. I know that this is a very minuscule crime on the overall scale of things, but I am TIRED of being the victim. I am feeling very hurt, very mistrustful and very angry. This is personal...