Theiving B*stards and the Lazy Lavender Hill Mob
Tonight I had my bag nicked. Gits. theiving hippy dole-cheats.
It was right besinde my right ankle. I listened to an answerphone message, throw my phone back in my bag… half an hour later it had vanished into thin air. I didn’t notice anyone pass, New Friend Simon didn’t notice anyone pass (and he was looking in the right direction which makes it all his fault. Right?).
Wallet, keys, phone. In Wallet: 2 debit cards (get me with no credit cards), driving licence (paper and plastic), NI card… not a lot of cash. More upsetting: My keys were on a key-ring that was made by The Leather Man at Greenbelt about 15 years ago… my sister has the matching pair; everyone’s phone number in my phone… PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH YOUR NUMBERS!
bunch. of. arse.
THEN… the moody woman on the Crime Report Line for Wandsworth borough made me go to Lavender Hill police station – and the lazy gits had closed up shop 10 minutes early (clearly keen to get home for the Second Chance Sunday repeat of Desperate Housewives) so I had to trapse all the way down to Wandsworth. humph.
The fella at Wandsworth Police Station was lovely though. There was a great comedy moment when I had to call Orange to cancel my phone, but the cord could only just stretch if I had my face pressed up against the security glass. Being the gentleman that he is, Simon took photos. Git. Actually that’s not fair. He’s been lovely and accompanied me all over SW London all for a smile and a hot Ribena.
right. I’m going to sulk some more. OH YEAH! having paid £5 a month for Orange Insurance for the past X amount of years, I now have to pay an extra £15 JUST TO CLAIM ON IT!
I repeat: Bunch. Of. Arse.
and goodnight
******
Edited to add in this picture (click on the pic to see more):
Bummer – know what it’s like to be credit card less having lost mine week before Christmas – you suddenly realise how much you depend on them. Hope you get stuff replaced ASAP – suggest get yourself a SIM card memory back-up for future as helps removes the anguish and frustration of losing phone. Phone you can replace, but dread to think how I would replace all my tel numbers.
That is indded a bunch of arse.
You poor thing – what an utter nightmare.
Of course it’s all the more infuriating knowing that the grief and truama the thieving gets have caused you is out of all proportion to the pennies they’ll actually make from their crime.
Still reassure yourself that whilst you have a lovely friend who will trapse across town with you as you try to sort things out (albeit whilst taking unsupportive photos!), ‘they’ no doubt have miserable little lives with few moments of beauty, random or otherwise.
Take care hun. And yes Orange are arses now re the Insurances. They tried to charge me for fixing a phone that was but months old (I pointed out warrenty wasn’t the same as Insurance cover) and that was after having to have a row with them that a phone switching itself off on average once a day did actually constituate a ’significant defect’ thank you very much!
That’s it we’re all coming over from Nashville to hunt them down and …….and….. hit them with Keith Urban C.D.s!!!
It’s such an annoying thing to have stuff stolen!! Feeling a little bit of the frustration for ya……….
Love from rainy Nashville on a Monday.
Trevie
Awww…that is indeed crap…really sorry to hear that.
My purse was stolen out of my bag once while it was sitting next to my feet in a pub in Westminster – Jim Stewart, sitting opposite me didn’t see anything & it was only when I went to get a picture out of said purse and emptied my bag on the table that I saw it had gone. It’s a crap feeling when someone steals something – there was next to no money & it was the things that I couldn’t replace that mattered the most.
Rest assured that T-Mobile are not any better though – even though I had a police report number for when my phone was stolen in Brighton, they refused to cover it under insurance as I couldn’t “prove” it had been stolen….
Hope your week gets better.
Love ya!
Rach x
What an evening!!! How crap……… guess the only way is up – hope things get better this week
argh. horrid little bar stewards. sorry, utter nightmare. grrrrrr. probly not dole-cheats tho. more likely estate agents or stockbrokers. being a dole cheat is so passe, and infinitely more lucrative.