So we went to a "Travel" party last Friday. Lee drove my filthy dirty Infiniti and parked it in Pam's driveway. There were at least 4 if not more cars in the driveway so they must have been checking all the cars there...

We were only there for a couple of hours, but apparently it only takes a few minutes to check if a car door is open.

My passenger door closes hard, so we don't know if I didn't get it closed all the way or if Lee didn't lock the doors. When we left the party, the passenger door was ajar. I thought, "Oh, oh" but a quick look did not reveal anything amiss. We started to drive off and Lee said - "There's still another door open!" (Because the interior light was still on) He got out and closed the rear passenger door and I began to worry...

After we got home and unloaded all the stuff we'd used during the open house, I began looking for the briefcase with the laptop in it. I THOUGHT I had put it in the car but it wasn't there. That's when I began to think we had gotten robbed.

The next day I checked the office, hoping against hope that I had forgotten to put the computer in the car, but no such luck! Yup, the thieves thought to steal a briefcase, but got a cool new laptop in the process.

But the worse thing is all the information that was on the machine. I spent Saturday changing all kinds of passwords and log ons.

And then more time calling the police and the pawn shops.

...and more time calling the insurance companies on Monday and the Bank

....and more time talking to the insurance adjuster and getting documentation...

......and the theives only took a few minutes to create this hassle!