Last year, we had a trash barrel - completely full of junk, weighing about 50 pounds, stolen off our porch. WTF?

I don't know why, but something struck me as funny about this post. Like, I can see Sheldon Cooper assigning "coffee carafe" investigation duty to someone...thanks for the giggle...and I hope you get coffee!

Now the person filing police reports is petitioning management to get CAMERAS installed in our kitchen.

Unfortunately, I told her about how somebody 6 floors up had USED babyclothes stolen out of her office (the SOMEBODY was pregnant and understandably upset as they were donated for HER baby).  And now there is a police report going up about that!

Where I work is FULL of Sheldons some days...I am Leonard, others Penny...

But man, I would love to be Bernedette or Amy!  They are the fun ones...

Not FIVE MINUTES after I wrote the post, I go out to my car to drive to work and the ******g thing is dead in the garage. Engine will start, but the stick shift is flopping around like a fish the on the end of a line. Can't get it to slide into any gears. Just what I needed today. FML.

You are having a bad day. I am sorry.

I ended up taking the train to work and, while I was waiting for Metro-North, an Amtrak train came by. I had such a gigantic urge to just get on that ***** - no matter where it was going - and just get the hell out of this life.

Where would you go?

In my secret run-away fantasy, I always work as a bartender in those temporary bars along the mountainside ski runs in Austria. Skiers ski in, I give them hot Tom & Jerrys, we chat a bit. They are happy and I am happy.

Apparently, I am so freakishly strong now that I managed to detach my shift cable from the stick shift, merely by shifting it. Cost of repair: 56 bucks.

or you are so good and angry (and the cable was scared) that you were able to superwoman it off!

It is awesome that you work on your own car.  Back in the day, people thought it was weird that I changed my own oil.

In a sense, I like older cars that one can work on. All this computer stuff makes it very difficult for the shady tree mechanic