A Series of Unfavorable Happenings Cont'

Part 2: I didn't even have a chance to say goodbye

The next day came and because Jason didn't have a car, he dropped me off at work and then took my car to school with him. He didn't realize until he was pulling into a less than accommodating parking lot at WSU that his parking pass was in his car. He quickly found a parking spot at a trail head above the school and made his way to class.

This is the part that is still debatable... whether or not Jason locked the car. He swears he did and I desperately wanted to believe him and I think I do. But this particular car was actually owned by my dad (as all of my cars had been up to that point in my life). And a few weeks earlier we had traded my little sister cars. She took my newer with automatic windows/locks/etc. car for her High School car without automatic anything. My (and I use the term "my" very liberally because this car was also my dads) car was more reliable and she would be driving back and forth from St. George so I figured it only fair not to cause much of a fuss about the exchange.

Which brings me to this point... the locks were not automatic, so it would be very explainable for Jason to think he locked the doors without actually having locked both doors. I'm just sayin... 

After 8 hours of mundane work, he picked me up and we drove to North Ogden to get his car. As I was driving back home I noticed the radio was not picking up any stations and the ones it did pick up were filled with static. That's when I noticed the missing antenna. I thought that was a little weird but to be honest I never really knew if there was an antenna to begin with. Like I said it was kind of a beater High School car and I had only been driving it a couple of weeks.

So to avoid the static, I decided to plug in my i pod. That's when I realized my i pod wasn't in the car either. This was beginning to get weird. At the next stop light, I frantically began throwing around things in the backseat looking for any other missing items. I remember thinking "please, please, please be in here" as I searched for Oliver. Nothing. After pretty much dismembering the back seat of my car I realized that Oliver had been taken abruptly from my life, along with my i pod, and 2 cases of CD's.

I called Jason panicking and explaining the missing items. He quickly put 3 and 3 together (inside joke) and realized that someone must have broken into my car while he was at school. Since the car was so old, someone could have easily broken into a locked door using the antenna. Which is the story Jason is sticking to and I have come to accept. We called the police to see what could be done. Nothing much. Then called our insurance... what a joke. We did end up getting a couple hundred dollars for the loss but nothing that would cover the cost of replacing Oliver.