So, exciting day! I did a boatload of stuff: painted a room, wrote ten pages, did lots of gardening. Then I got my phone stolen by a door-to-door solicitor. Thankfully, our neighborhood has a good constable service and they promptly came, found the group of solicitors, and somehow returned my phone. We decided not to press charges and Rob and I both prayed that this would somehow be a moment that would turn this guy to a different direction.
I feel kind of weird about it. I mean, I'm glad I had my phone back, but what the constable said about why the guy took my phone made me sad. I had left the phone on our front porch and forgot after gardening. The constable said the kid was poor and wanted a phone. I mean, if you've seen my phone, it's worth less than like $5. It's a go-phone, basically. For someone to want a phone badly enough to steal MY phone...yeah.
It was also disturbing that this happened in the middle of the day, while our neighbors were outside, just a few feet away, and with Tex barking his head off just inside. That didn't make me feel very safe. You'd think that those things would deter...but no. I'm not the type to worry much, but it did make me re-think the kind of lazy attitude I have about keeping our house locked and things put away. Not that I want to change a lot of things about the way we live, but I do think it made me see things a little differently. Just a weird day. Glad to have my phone back, and hope that kid is okay.
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