Am I sad? Am I angry? Am I both?

I'm not even sure. I'm really sad and I'm really pissed off and I'm just feeling the brunt of the stupidity of teenagers that do not think of the consequences of their actions. Not my kids, other people's kids.

My daughter was given an Itouch by her boyfriend for Hanukkah. Yes, it was an extravagant gift, but there's a whole back story behind it, and I felt OK about it. Nuff said?

And I had a camera that I had saved up for. It took months and months of me putting away a few bucks every months until I got that camera, on sale, from Overstock.com. It wasn't a great camera, it wasn't even a good camera. But it took decent photos and it was in my very limited price range.

Last night she went over to a friend's house. A friend whose house she's over all the time. They're nice people. Since a friend of hers was visiting from Maine, she borrowed my camera to take some photos.

The camera and the Iphone were both stolen sometime during the evening. My daughter knows pretty much all the kids that were hanging out, but three long-time friends of their host came over and she didn't know him. When she discovered that the stuff was missing, she cried and got really upset because I use that camera for work. And there is no way on God's green earth that I can replace it. We're so behind on everything right now I can barely deal with food, rent, and the phone bill.

Her Itouch is just plain gone, and that sucks because it's the way I communicate with her throughout the day. I can text her at school silently and that won't disrupt classes like SOME kids who don't even bother to turn off the ringers on their phones.

I'm furious that some kid would take something from my kid. It's no secret how poor we are. Her boyfriend was there with her and he got hopping mad and started screaming about how there is no way we can replace these items so please return them. But nobody did. Her boyfriend gave me an ancient Kodak Easyshare camera that's 3.2 megapixels and has no zoom to use in the meantime, but I need a better camera to photograph stuff for my paid blogs.

My daughter was in tears, she felt terribly disrespected and I don't blame her one bit. We live in SUCH a wealthy community but stealing goes on all the time. But I can't understand how kids can steal from the poor. Have they never read Robin Hood?  I just don't get it.

I'm really sad for my daughter, I'm mad about my camera, and I am just furious with the world right now for sending us even more shit when we honestly didn't need anything else.

Comments

[Daisy]

What an awful experience!! I hope these items turn up, but it's not likely. I feel for your daughter. Her trust in her friends must be just dashed.

[Nina]

Gross! As you know, I'm not in love with my son's school, but one thing I love is that you can put a backpack down ANYWHERE on the campus and it will be left alone. Everything he has "lost" has turned up eventually at this school.

[Ali]

I find that it's the rich kids who have the least respect for others' property. Kids from families without much money value their own possessions AND the possessions of others.

[MJ]

I'm SO SORRY!!!! It pisses me off when people are so stupidly cruel.

A few years ago, my brother's car was broken into. The punks took the stereo, on which the cd player was broken, about 30 dollars in change that my brother had on the floor of his car, and his scriptures. I think they thought it was a cd case.

Anyway, a few weeks later, he received his scriptures via UPS. The theifs ended up using the money they stole from my brother to send him his scriptures back.

Hopefully the thief in your story gets a conscience and gives the stuff back.

[kellie]

How do you txt on an iTouch?