My car obviously has a giant target painted on the back of it that no one has told me about. Most people who know me know the saga of my car. My car lived out the first 5 years of its life in Montgomery County without incident. Then, it started living in P.G. county during my college years. My poor `94 Honda Accord was stolen twice in just over a 1 year span in the years of 2001/2002. Both times I got the car back, through blind luck. I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that if it happened again, it was probably never coming back…and maybe that was for the best. The first time it was stolen it was taken from a Metro parking lot in the middle of the day. That’s just flat out bad luck. The second time, it was from my apartment complex’s parking lot, which was a factor of living in a complex that’s on a main road, easily accessible, and somewhat poorly lit at night.

Then, I moved to a nicer complex, that was not easy to breeze in and out of by random passers-by. My car stayed put for 2+ years, with no incidents whatsoever (outside of getting randomly egged right as I was moving again [which I have still not cleaned up properly because I'm lazy]). I move again, to a complex which is pretty much across the street from my old apartments where it got stolen the 2nd time. I have been there for about 4 months. Wednesday night, someone tried to steal my car again.

Tried, but were unsuccessful (luckily?). I’m not sure what prevented them from taking the car this time. Perhaps they were just crappy thieves and did something wrong while shoving a screw driver into the ignition cylinder. However, you can also lock the steering wheel of my car when you turn the car off (which I generally don’t do, but sometimes hit accidently exiting my car). I discovered that I had apparently locked the steering wheel upon trying to turn the wheel when the tow truck guy and I were attempting to maneuver my car into a better position for getting it on to the tow truck. When the steering wheel locks, you need to be able to turn the key in the ignition to unlock it. Neither the towing guy or I could manage to turn the cylinder with a screw driver to unlock the wheel. Perhaps blind luck prevented my car from being stolen. I have to wonder if locking the wheel would’ve prevented the first two successful thefts. Maybe its a habit I’ll get into.

Regardless, this leaves me at my wits end, once again. I can’t stop thinking that its entirely possible that I’ll get my car fixed and have this happen again next month. I certainly can’t afford to buy a new car right now. I also just am not in a position to move. I even hate thinking to myself that its clearly the area I’m living in that’s the problem. I try to cut P.G. County a lot of slack, but its rather hard to do right now. The whole thing leaves me frustrated beyond comprehension.