Ugh.

Monday, sometime between 4:00pm and 6:00pm, my parents house was broken into. Well, not broken into, really. Some ballsy cocksucker walked through the front door, up the stairs, into the kitchen, and got his hands on my mothers wallet. He then proceeded to walk back out the front door.

And my mother was in the house.

She's not sure when it happened. There was only a very small window of time that they could have done it before my father and the guy my parents are renting a room to came home from work/school. So, either they were watching the house to see when my mother would be home alone, or they just have incredibly huge testicles and figured they could take on 2 pretty beefy guys, not to mention my mother, who's a definite force to be reckoned with.

My mom gets paid cash for the work she does, and she keeps all this cash in her wallet. Probably about $400-$500 worth. Stupid, I know. I've told her many times she's a walking crime spree waiting to happen. I think what probably happened was that someone saw this wad of cash, followed her home (maybe more than once), and waited for the right moment.. The good thing is that they only took the cash and her credit card. All her other cards and information were in a separate holder in her purse. There were also cameras and other stuff they could have taken, but I guess they were only in for one thing.

Obviously, this has left my mom a little shaken up. She's taken to sleeping with her purse in her bedroom now, and she's considering hiding her knives. I told her the only thing you can do is just be more careful. In a few weeks, I imagine she'll feel less paranoid. My father is a way a lot though, so she refuses to spend the night alone anymore. I can't say I blame her. This has sort of freaked me out, too. It's freaked me out because considering what happened, things could have been much worse. Just to think that someone can just walk into a house and back out again without a second thought just gives me the heeby-jeebies.

Anyway.. Just a public service announcement. I know we live in Canada and this stuff doesn't happen, but I hope you will all think twice about locking your doors, even when you're in the house.

Oh, one more thing, on the lighter side of all this. My parents didn't realize anything was wrong until they checked the answering machine at around 8 or so that night. The credit card people called because there was a few 'suspicious transactions' that came up. These suspicious transactions?

Gas fill-ups. There were about 4 fill-ups in the span of an hour or so. I realize gas is expensive these days, but c'mon people.. don't steal money from 55 year old ladies, ya bunch of fucks.