Man, this SUCKS...

Tonight, Shelly and I loaded up the kids and headed out to dinner. I was craving some smoked sirloin from Texas Land & Cattle, so we stopped in there for a little grub. Dinner was great. Shelly stopped by the ladies room on the way out so I took the kids out to the truck and got them buckled in.

When Shelly got to the truck, she asked me what was the story with all of the junk on her seat. Several things from the center console (spare diapers, gloves, etc) were piled on her seat. It hit us both at the same time. We checked the console and around the truck in general. We had been robbed.

As near as we can tell, they either jimmied the handle or used a slim-jim. There is a small scratch on the paint below the door handle on the drivers side. All we could find missing was Shelly's makeup and our digital camera that were both in the console. Nothing of value was in sight. What's funny is that she had a new pendant, still in the James Avery bag also in the console that was dumped on the passenger seat. She also had her blue tooth laying in the cup holder, that was untouched.

Why the makeup? It was in a small zippered Vera Bradley pouch, so they probably thought it was a purse. The funny thing about the camera is that Shelly had taken it yesterday to go on a field trip with Matthew, and forgot the battery for it. So, the jackass that broke in the truck got a bag of used makeup and a non-working camera. Of course, it will cost us about $400 or so to replace the camera and the cosmetics, but luckily there was no real damage to the truck.

One lucky thing was that I almost left my iPod in the console, and decided to slip it in my pocket. Makeup and the camera get replaced out of the general fund. I would have just been out of luck with the iPod.