Silverthorne

Man, I hope the people in my new place end up being as cool.

I was a doofus. I left my keys in the ignition when I went to get the mail on the way home from work today.

...and I locked the door when I got out. With the car still running.

See Anne Facepalm. Faceplam, Anne, Facepalm!

Anyhow, so yes, I had to reassure myself that the keyring lock thing still doesn't work when there are keys in the ignition. It's actually a great safty feature...

If you don't lock your keys inside and in the ignition, that is.

Anyway, so managers office was closed, so no calling the cops (my cell phone, of course, was also in the car, in the laptop case, on the passenger side seat. XD.)

Several people in this time period came into the lot, got their mail...and ignored me. I will note, for the people playing race bingo at home, that they were all white.

:/

Anyhow, so I manage to flag down a couple of guys in a pick-up coming home from work themselves. Despite my complete lack of spanish, and their shaky english, we established the problem.

They spent the next half hour trying to get into the car for me (Incidentally, I now know how to use two wedges of wood, a screw driver, and a coat hanger to get into my car. XD ).

What got me was that during this time another white woman pulled up next to us. She didn't talk to us; just went and got her mail, and then proceeded to read all of her mail (and look over at us every five seconds or so with sneaky glances) in her car while we pried our way into my car. She didn't leave until the door was open and she saw me reattach the part of the keychain I had in my hand with the part still in the ignition.

...yeah. Um. Yeah. Thanks, lady. And I hope you didn't call the cops on those guys.

Anyway, the good: I have cool neighbors.
The bad: other neighbors are apparently idiots.

In other news: got my phone, DSL, cable TV set up and the equipment purchased. I'm keeping up with you, Eiko-mun. ^^ All I;ll have to do is toss my stuff in the apartment and hook things up come move in day. Yay!