At Home with John and Debbie

This is starting to get irritating.

Yesterday afternoon — in broad daylight — someone threw a stone through our already broken window, breaking the second pane. Steve saw who probably did it. I’m sure Debbie will document her dissatisfaction with the police’s lack of interest.

On the off-chance that the culprit is reading, here’s the inconvenience you’ve caused with one stone:

• I spent an hour sweeping up broken glass.
• Debbie spent an hour chasing up insurance companies, and she’ll doubtless have to spend more time doing similar.
• We had to sit in when we’d have preferred to be out and about (like you were), waiting for a glazier to come and quote us for fixing it.
• We had to board up the window to keep the heat in.
• We will have to pay over £250 to get it fixed.
• That will come out of our own pockets until the insurance is sorted out.
• When the insurance is sorted out, we’ll still be paying an excess: I don’t know how much that is. I suspect it’ll be high.
• When the glazier fixes it, one of us will have to stay off work to be in the house

Funny eh?

You’re not disgruntled iPod-imperfection-deniers out for revenge are you?

Update: As predicted, Debbie spoke up. This morning the police gave us a follow-up phone call in which they reassured us that although they weren’t actually able to do anything, they were nonetheless interested and eager to hear any further developments.

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