It was not my day yesterday. After a series of small annoyances throughout the day, the final straw was that my iPhone was stolen out of my purse.
I only had it for 6 weeks! I have never had a cell phone stolen and only lost one (left it on an airplane) in the decade+ that I’ve had cell phones. And yet my nicest, and most expensive phone, was stolen in 6 weeks.
I don’t want to go into the specifics and nitty gritty details, but yes, it was stolen and not lost.
I don’t “know” the person who did it.
I did not witness the actual act of the stealing with my own two eyes but did witness the person (whom I’m 99.99% certain stole my phone) running for the door. I thought, that’s odd but didn’t think much of it.
Five minutes later I realized my purse zipper was open half way, and my purse seemed lighter, but I didn’t really think much of it.
Twenty minutes later, I connected all the dots when I went to see if I had any new emails and my phone was not in my purse.
My heart sunk. Ba-bye phone.
I had purchased insurance on it (twisted foreshadowing, see Question 3) and I filed a claim on it.
I still had to pay $199 for a “new” iPhone (but it’s probably going to be a re-furbished phone and not a brand new one. Ugh) but at least it’s not the full retail price of $750.
An ironic twist was that when I was trying to pay the $199 fee with my American Express to have a new phone sent to me, Amex thought that was a fraudulent charge and so mid-claim and mid-transaction, I had to hang up with the phone replacement company, call Amex, and let them know the charge was legit. I have been cardmember for 10 years and that has never happened.
The iPhone is being shipped overnight to me and I should have it Wednesday. In the meantime and using my old Blackberry. It feels like such a relic!
Service was supsended on the stolen iPhone within hours or the crime and the serial number was reported as stolen so if anyone tries to activate that phone, it will come up as stolen and they won’t be able to turn it on. I am sure there are ways around this because sadly, thieves can be very clever but I did what I could to make it very difficult for my stolen phone to be easily used by someone else.
I tried to track and Find My iPhone and had even set up my iPhone with the Find Me capabilities, but unfortunately, there is no data/GPS position coming up for my phone. Boo hoo. If you do have an iPhone though, check out those links. Worth a shot to set it up because you never know.
The only thing left to do at a time like this is eat chocolate.
No Bake Vegan Chocolate “Turtles”
or
No Bake Vanilla Cake Batter Chocolate Truffles
From my last post on Tofu Tips, I am glad you found my tips helpful. Yes, tofu can be tricky to make at home but once you have it down, it’s so easy and you’ll be glad you know how to make it at home.
Thanks for sharing your favorite recipes and ways you like to prepare your tofu, too! I loved reading everyone’s strategies and tofu making tips and tricks.
Questions:
1. Have you ever had anything stolen?
I think we all have had things stolen from childhood bicycles to hair brushes in the high school locker room to various electronics or gadgets that just seemed to “walk off” on their own in college dorm room living to whatever else.
Sadly, I have had my car broken into before and the thieves did steal my purse but I was young and the purse itself was cheap and there wasn’t anything too valuable in it.
However, just the act of having to call all your credit cards and stopping them, waiting for new ones to arrive, getting a new driver’s license or ID, it all takes hours and hours and hours of valuable “life time” just handling it.
And it seems to go on and on because six months later I’d be looking for someone’s business card and realize that oh, that was part of the stolen purse situation and then I’d have to track down the person’s info and number another way. Such a frustrating timesuck! The gift the just keeps giving, so to speak. Ugh.
As a kid I had bicycles, Barbies, dolls, toys and that kind of thing stolen. As a kid it’s so hard to wrap you mind around why someone would steal.
My sister’s apartment was robbed when she was in college and she lost everything from money, electronics, to my Grandma’s jewelry and family heirlooms. So sad.
As an adult, I still don’t get it!
What good was my phone (I also had it password protected!) to someone else? They can’t use it because the service is suspended and they can’t turn it on because it’s on the blacklist of Hot phones, and therefore can’t sell it. And, in the process it costs me time, money, energy, and frustration to replace it. I just don’t get it!
2. Have you ever lost or had your phone stolen? How did you feel?
We are all so dependent on our phones to do more than just be our phones. They are mini computers, they hold our music, photographs, contacts, our appointments, and are really lifelines to the modern world in which we live.
At least I have my Blackberry to use, but I feel lost without my current phone. For the record, love the iPhone wayyyy more than Blackberry.
I feel lost, violated, mad, and frustrated, but hey, it’s only a phone and a new one is coming. Now I just have to set it up, import my 1000 contacts, my 10,000 iTunes, my photos, etc. All over again. Fun.
But whatever. At least I “got this out of my system” now for awhile. I should be good to go for a long time without any black clouds, right! The only thing you can do at times like this is just let out one big GAH!!! Scream, then shrug it off because stressing about it (or replaying the events and how or why things happened) isn’t going to bring my phone back. So just shrug it off and…
…I have something fun that I am off to do this afternoon. It couldn’t come at a better time.
Have a great day!
I’ve not had a phone stolen because mine is a relic (prepaid, flip phone). But I was visiting my husband when he was doing an internship in Portland, OR when my purse was stolen. My hubby put it on the seat next to him while i went to the bathroom, and we forgot it in a restaurant.
We went back not 5 mins later, and it was GONE. I stupidly had my SS card in there. So for years I checked my credit report in fear that someone tried to steal my identity. You try flying back home without a photo ID. Luckily, this was pre-911, and they are SUPPOSED to take a police report. In the end, they took my work ID – not a legal ID at all!
Oh man, I feel your pain! When I was a senior in high school, i was taking a research paper class…which you HAVE to pass to graduate. 3 days before my 40 page paper was due, my car was broken into and ALL of my books, research, computer, papers and etc were stolen. Luckily my teacher had read my paper so many times, from making corrections and suggestions, that he already knew what grade he was going to give me :) But still….it SUCKED!
Averie, I am just so sorry that this has happened to you. You are right…it is so difficult to try and wrap your brain around WHY this kind of thing happens. Not that it brings your phone back, but for the record, my heart aches for you and I am sorry that happened.
My wallet was stolen on my honeymoon and all of the rest of our cash was taken and the wallet left empty a few blocks from where it was stolen. I know…we should have had traveller’s checks, but we were young and seriously thought nothing like that would happen to us. It was such a bummer and I remember (16 years ago) crying so hard and thinking and saying out loud over and over again “WHY?!?! WHY would someone do that?!” Alas, I will never know why someone stole my wallet that day. But, and I really believe this, there are simply natural consequences for things and whoever stole my wallet, just like whoever stole your iPhone, will pay in some way for what he/she did.
HUGS to you, Averie!! :) xoxoxo
So sorry that happened to you!! A must eat chocolate day for sure!
sorry about your iphone. my husband’s was stolen on christmas eve in vietnam – which was such a nightmare b/c getting in touch with the states was next to impossible
That is so horrible about your phone!!! I’m so sorry!
AGH! (That’s like GAH but inside out.) Like I was just telling Charlotte the other day about negative blog comments: 10% of humans are dicks.
ah I cannot believe people do that sort of thing!! I could NEVER steal without have a guilty conscience! I even feel awful taking silveware from the dining at work home LOL (even though its really free)
I am so so so sorry about this Averie, I can imagine how upset and frustrated you are
you will have your new phone in NO time! :)
xoxo
I honestly can’t believe people steal like that. It’s so disgusting. I’m so sorry that this happened to you, and I’m going to check out the find my iphone link…thanks for the tip
I’m so sorry this happened to you–and glad that you’re smart and savvy enough that you had safeguards in place–and such awesome chocolate for consolation (really, stunning photography, mouth-watering).
One of the things I like about living not in a city is that there’s less theft generally (although it’s important not to get complacent–we did get our license plate stolen recently, from our battered, beat up truck, no less.
I’ve had my wallet stolen three different times, all in cities, each time not much cash in it, mostly a huge nuisance to replace drivers license, id, banks, etc–and each time, even though I realized and reported it _very quickly_, my atm card had already been used. Thank goodness the banks have insurance for that kind of thing and I didn’t lose $$ from my account.
I hope that things go better now!
love
Ela
One of my friends had her iPhone stolen too! That’s the phone to carry to be a target for a**holes. Just, wow. Karma is real though.
OMG I’m so sorry girl! That sucks about your phone!
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i would have been LIVID!!! i’m sorry girl :( i hope tomorrow is better!
I’m so sorry Averie!
I’ve never had anything stolen, but I can imagine that in addition to feeling righteously pissed off, I’d feel pretty violated.
Eat that chocolate girl and spend some time with Skylar ; )
uuugh so sorry to hear that Averie! I’m glad you had insurance although 199 is certainly not chump change :(
My worst experience with theft was when I cleaned my car with what tunred out to be toxic carpet cleaner, fainted, fell on my face and had to go to the hospital. My brother took me as I was totally out of it. When we registered my brother accidentally left my wallet on the registration desk for about 10 seconds an the registration guys stole it!
My parents complained and nothing was done. They found it later wrapped in paper towels in the mens restroom with credit cards missing. Yeah take advantage of wounded people why don’t ya!
OH my goodness, I can only imagine how annoying/frustrating/ SUPER infuriating that would be to get my iphone stolen! I’m seriously almost a little mad just reading this post, and hearing how upset it got you. :( Sorry girl!! But on the plus side, I la-la-LOVVVVEEE your blog and all of your recipes are freakin’ BOMB! :) I’m totally checking out both the cake balls and vegan turtles…turtles are one of my favorite candies…so vegan! YES!!!