I have little magnetic flames on the side of my car. I joked, back when I first got the Corolla, that it'd be funny to paint flames on it, because it's such a conservative, boring-looking vehicle. My dad thought it was a funny idea, and he gave me these magnetic flame decals for a highschool graduation gift.
When I came out to my car, this morning, to go to work, all of the flames from one side of the car and most of them from the other had been moved onto the hood. It's been raining a lot (Monsoons, ya know?) and my car is dirty. These decals are meant to be applied only to a very clean, freshly waxed surface. I carefully moved the flames back, for now, but they're not sticking as well. I'm going to have to find a way to clean them, clean my car, wax it, and put them back on properly. This is going to cost me money, which makes me angry. It may be "funny" and even "harmless" vandalism, but it's still vandalism. My property has been damaged.
I'm pissed off. I'm sick of people walking by and treating my porch like it's public property. I hate finding beer cans and cigarettes and whatever else a foot away from my front door. It's rude, and it makes me feel, at times, like I'm not entirely safe in my own home, even though I have a security gate. But all of the random abuse and misuse of my porch, I can sort of dismiss as people being stupid. Maybe they don't really realise that it's private property. Maybe it doesn't occur to them how rude their behavior is.
But for someone to deliberately rearrange decorations on my car? I'm a little too busy feeling creeped out at the knowledge that someone was walking around a few inches from my living room window and I didn't notice, right now. In a little while, though, I'm going to be seriously fucking pissed off.
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