Aaargh! My Garmin Nuvi 350 GPS unit got stolen! Ghazala parked the car on Wednesday night at the Hayward Parking Lot next to the Eastgate apartments where we live. On Thursday morning, when we went to the car, the GPS unit was gone. The thief even took the suction cup mount. And to think that I bought it only two weeks ago for $499.99 at Best Buy...
Here is the most ironic part. Last week, when I was getting coffee from the local cafe, I read a cover story in a local Boston magazine, Boston Now, on how GPS units are getting stolen from cars around the Boston area. The article even suggested some tips on how to protect your device, such as never leaving it in the car, registering at the manufacturer's website etc. So, off I go, and start telling other Sloanies on how they should protect their GPS devices. All the while, it never occurred to me to register my own device, let alone take it out of the car every time I leave.
I called the MIT Police around 10:00 PM on Thursday and they were pretty efficient in coming to the "crime scene", and writing up a police report. The officer was pretty sympathetic, even as I rambled on what a great "Welcome to Cambridge" present I got. He even wished me happy birthday while jotting down information from my driver's license. While coming back from the parking lot, I ran into some Sloanies, wherein I proceeded to ramble once again about my ordeal. Too much rambling on my part these days... May be it has something to do with the fact on how I have been getting less than 4 hours of sleep every night for the last two weeks. In fact, I don't think I have ever had so much fun and so little sleep in my life at the same time.
Coming back to the Sloanies, one of them suggested that I call up my Discover credit card company (which I had used to make the purchase), to see if they could compensate me for some of the loss, since I had used their plastic to make the purchase. Apparently American Express has some sort of a service like that... Anyway, I called Discover and they told me that they do not have any such service. Dejected, I sat down to register my device on the Garmin website...
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