Have you ever been overdue on pretty much every bill? And negative money in your bank account?
It’s been a couple months since the incident, but I haven’t been working since then. In mid-March, my car was stolen while I was at work. I was working for Dominos as a pizza delivery driver.
It was a fake delivery, which I didn’t know at the time. It wasn’t paid for yet, and it was at a place that you had to leave sight of your car and go inside. During these kinds of deliveries, I ALWAYS shut my car off and lock the doors. But this one time I didn’t. I even debated about taking my purse with me and still locking the car and turning it off and everything. And I just…I didn’t. Anyway, within a couple minutes, of the person who answered the door saying that they didn’t order any pizza and my calling the bogus number on the ticket for the pizza, my car was stolen.
I was in shock. I even almost didn’t take my phone with me; luckily I did. Otherwise, I would’ve been completely done for. I called 911, and called my work and my husband. The police came, took my statement, my boss came and picked me up, took me back to work and then Brandon came and picked me up from work and took me home. This all happened within the first hour of my shift. It was still light out, you could see as bright as day. And it happened to me. I was still in shock for the first week.
The people who stole my car got about $300 in cash, and the kids car seats, and everything else that was in the car. My drivers license and all those fun things. The police found my car about a month later. Everything was gone. The license plate. They swapped a couple of the tires, but otherwise, it still worked, for the most part. We were able to drive it home.
I wasn’t even sure if I was ever going to share this, but I’m just so broken right now. We are in the worst spots right now with our finances, and I’m going back to work at dominos, because I can’t get any other job. I’ve been applying since shortly after the incident. And they liked me at dominos and I liked the job up until the incident. But we need money, and we would like to get a house sometime soon, if at all possible. So to do that, I need to just go and get what I can to pay our bills and get caught up again. So we can start saving again for a house. For my family. This is really hard, but that’s what we do as parents. We do what’s hard now so that our kids won’t have to. So we can give our kids the best that we can. And if I have to go back to a job, that I’m still a bit scared to do, than that’s what I have to do.
I have felt like a failure as a wife and mother for so long, and because of this – my car being stolen. And I’m done feeling like a failure. It’s not going to be an easy road going back to the job, but it’s not just for me, it’s for my family.
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