Have you ever had a vehicle stolen?

I had a 1987 Chevy Caprice stolen out of my apartment complex's parking lot while I was in bed, sleeping no more than 25 feet away from it.

Oh, that is a sick, cold feeling to walk outside and find out your car is gone.

Even worse, my tuba was in the back seat (I used to leave it in the car instead of lugging it up and down the stairs every time I went to band practice). When I reported the car stolen, the cops told me they couldn't take a report on the contents of the car unless and until the vehicle was recovered without the contents inside it.

So my car was stolen, but my tuba wasn't. That meant the cops wouldn't post the serial number of my horn to the local pawn shops. Ain't that a jiffy?

A year after the theft, I got a letter from the KCPD stolen vehicle division. I was very excited, because I thought they had found my car. No, turns out they were just writing me to ask if I had found it.

That was 12 years ago, and I've been paranoid about my vehicles, ever since. I put steering blocks on all of them, even the ones that nobody would want to steal.

Who else has experienced a theft like that?

- HOW kin I be so brainless, when I is so smart?