Saturday night looting
Life has a funny way to get back at you, and keep things on an even keel. Some people call it Karma, while others still spiritually challenged like me call it coincidence. I was having a perfect Saturday in Chicago with my friends. An architectural cruise of the city, followed by shopping at Michigan avenue, further followed by the legally blond musical Broadway in downtown where they serve decent champagne in a plastic glass. And that is not it, we further rounded it by late night dinner at Rush street where they have all these late night bars and clubs.
On our way to the dinner, we parked my car near the rush street, close by the restaurant we wanted to eat in. It was a paid parking in a very modest neighbourhood. At the dinner I am drinking Vodka with my medium well done cut of sirloin, another friend is enjoying the chicken, while the vegetarian friend is served the entire broccoli plant with fungus (read mushrooms). Sorry Jay’s if you are reading this, but I had to say it out loud. The food was ordinary at best, but it was a source of satisfaction for our starving bods.
After dinner, and a couple of snaps, we go back to our car to drive all the way back to my house. As we approach the car, we notice that the passenger side glass in front has been smashed, and my brand new GPS is gone. Also, another bag that I was carrying to dump my informal clothes is missing. It hit us hard .. ‘Oh My god! We have been robbed.” I was taken aback for a minute, because something like this has never happened to me before.
My friend calls the cops to register a complain (read protest) and I call up my car rental to inform them I need an exchange right away in the dead of the night. The police took our complaint and gave us a number for reference, but I am disappointed that they never showed up, like they always do in the movies. The car rental guy asked us to come right away and exchange the vehicle. We drove in cold for 25 mins with irrefutable spirits, and a broken window, and by 3:00 AM managed to get the car exchanged. The amusement that was missing since the looting, was slowly but surely returning back. We were glad! Life was back to where we left it a couple of hours ago.
The incident occurred right in the middle of our long 4 day weekend extravaganza. A good reminder to keep things honest and on an even keel. The way I look at it - a thief is looking for GPS trace in cars, found one in mine, and bam there he goes. Grabs whatever else he can and runs away. - Coincidence.
What forces some of us to go philosophical for a moment, are the next set of details. There was plenty of other fancy stuff in the car that my friends had purchased earlier from the Michigan Avenue. It was all lying there like a sitting duck, begging to be stolen once the window was broken. The thief only took my stuff, leaving everything else untouched (I am glad about that, no kidding!). The loot was small, so it isn’t about money. But it beckons the question, more coincidence or just my Karma?
Why is it that only bad things get associated with Karma huh? he he food for thought..lol
India is much safer dude..hehe come back..i bet nothing like this happened to you in Noida..
and it never will coz u’ll never be able to use a GPS in Noida you will confuse the poor thing..hahahahahah
i think most of us think we deserve good things.. so when they happen to us, we feel good and move on. when bad things happen, we start thinking and developing theories… LOL!
You left what ppl think as an UNSAFE city and got robbed in USA -Chicago’s nice ally?!? AMAZING…
As for Karma… ur good luck was that it was a rental
Economy is down here big time, people need to steal
I don’t think I would feel safer anywhere in the world except being in my beloved Delhi.
Shekhar sorry to hear that what GPS unit were you using, check the Rental policy they sometimes cover personals in case of a theft.
@Nitin Joshi - GPS’es work wonderfully well in noida almost all the roads have been mapped. I know coz i have a GPS on my windows modile and i play with it a lot I use MMI
Ankush: did all checks already, not covered.
@wanderer: you know what we a technology more superior than GPS in most places in India.. (People..too many of them..lol) just stop and ask
on a more serious note, did you buy that Noida map or is it avalaible for free and is it any good in terms of addresses? i ve never used one but have always been interested.
lolz… the police didn;t show up with their lights and sirens blazing in less than 0.3 secs? How disappointing!
Maybe you should make a list like the guy in “MY name is Earl’ and see if fixing Bad karm of past pays off!
Nitin, Havent tried it with addresses, Have tried it with localities and POI’s and works great especially outside delhi too.
The map is not free but I didn’t pay for it ….it is an all india map last updated in April 09
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting
WOW!!! honestly, a lot better (or should I say, even better!) than ” How to Life!”….You have given an interesting storyline to what sure was one of those bad days in your “n they lived happiy ever after” kinda life…love the didactic take on karma served oh so casually in the end…
A very interesting piece, rendered even more interestingly!!!
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