How to milk a man . 101 .
So i got robbed ...
They broke into my studio and cleaned me up of my cash
hold your breath ... 3300 Euros !
I know
I'm not supposed to keep that kind of dough at my place .
I dunno why i did . I guess my Egyptian genes have fucked me up once again !
We as Egyptians tend to keep our money where we can talk to it , smell it , touch it , and feel its holy presence . Somwhere "safe" . Somwhere where we can have immediate access to it in case of emergency , like when it's 3 am and we wanna order KFC .
It was a weird robbery tho .
According to the cops , they came in thru the window which was wide open - apparently a theft technique that is very wide spread in Paris , thank you for enlighting me now ! - .
There was no sign of vandalism in the place at all . No mess . No opened drawers . No misplaced items . Nothing !
If it wasn't for the open door - they left thru the door - , i wouldn't even have noticed anyone was ever in the room .
The only thing that went missing was the money , which was of course "hidden" . Duh .
And no . Not under the pillow ... nor the floor tiles ! .
But in the bank folder . Along with all the bank papers . Reverse phsycology .
I mean
ok
Label a porn video "love motel . volume iii" and noone would bother to go thru the hassle of checking it out .
Now label it " i split the atom and eat chicken skin " . You'd be busted in a heart beat !
Well it always worked for me .
As a horny all-boys-school-victim teenager, i never got caught with porn!
Except for once . I forgot to re-label a fellow pervert's video once .
A 16 years old with a "Mickey and Donald in the jungle" video was kinda fishy i guess ....
Anyway ... they did find my money .
It's like they knew where it was and went directly for it !
My Chopard watch was very visible on the table . Oddly enough they didn't take it !
I kinda owe them on this one . It was a gift from my mom . Let alone the only fancy item i own !
The French police was amazingly very nice . Very unefficient tho . lol .
They came in , visually scanned the room , verbally asked some questions and nodded along dutifully to the answers .
They asked me if i suspected the thief had touched anything .
I pointed out a watch , a different one .
They powdered its sorry ass looking for fingerprints . Naturally they didn't find any .
And now the watch doesn't work anymore . It stopped at 09:50 03.05.06 . Nice souvenir !
Needless to say i had to fill in a form , a "dossier" .
They have a thing for "dossier"'s those Frenchies .
You want to enroll in a course , you fill in a dossier .
You want to befriend someone , you fill in a dossier .
You want to take a dump , you fill in a dossier !
I filled in one anyway where i said all sort of shit that later on came to bite me in the ass when i sat down with the insurance dudes and dudettes . But that's a different story !
To wrap it up they gave me the official French party line .
"Nous sommes desoles , on peut rien faire , bonne chance "
They're sorry . There's nothing they can do . They wish me good luck .
It sums up the story of my life that sentence .
Someone is always sorry .
Someone is always wishing me good luck !
What i didn't get is why they were wishing me a "good luck" ..." good luck catching the thief yourself " ?!
I wasn't expecting much "on the crime level" anyway ...
A courtsey fake police badge or free donuts would have been nice tho ... but yeah ...
My last - and only - hope was insurance . They screwed me over as well . I'm not getting a penny !
They don't reimburse cash . Only items with purchase receipt .
There was no evidence of break-and-entry neither .. i could be making it all up for all they know !
My friends had adviced me to claim the loss of valuable objects .. like my Chopard for instance .. and then rightfully collect back the money that was actually stolen ... you know .. sort of a system's backdoor , have anal sex with the system !
I wouldn't do it tho .
Not because i'm a chicken ... God knows i've done much more daring things .
I only wouldn't . I felt it was immoral . And i don't regret it .
I also said all sort of dumb things in the police report .
I said i'm not sure if the window was closed or open . In insurance's vocabulary that's negligence .
I said that even tho i was 200% sure the door was properly locked this time cause i had double checked , my door lock was faulty and that it sometimes acts funny but that i had reported it to my concierge cause it was his responsability to replace it . In insurance's vocabulary that's " Go claim your 3300 Euros from the concierge " .
I also said i suspected noone . While i did !
Ya well ...
This is not the 1st insurance company to screw me up .
I'm not paying the bastards anymore .
I'm wasting that money on the lottery instead . I have better odds of collecting it back this way if you ask me !
So yeah ... that's basically it
I got "milked"
Down to the very last drop ....