This weekend we all took a little time off, and our wee family headed out to visit cousins and friends to frolic on beaches in Denmark. I turned off my computer, and Miklas prepared all the doors with oil before putting his tools down and coming with us. Our first time off since forever - just relaxing and reloading batteries.

Monday when he returned to work on the doors he finds that they are thrown about in the basement and all his tools are missing. Cordless electric drills, two different types of electric sanders (one round, and one for corners), his measuring tools, his chisel, his hammer. He can't do any work now since all the vital tools are missing, and we seriously can not afford new ones.

For a moment we think that someone has simply borrowed it. When our neighbor renovated their apartment, their hired handymen from Poland had borrowed a few items as per the neighbors instructions - without telling Miklas that they had. This annoyed Miklas, and I'm kicking myself for not telling him to always bring his tools in the house after that - but hindsight and twenty twenty you know. We're still hoping that someone simply borrowed them - or better yet it's a theif with a conscience - who will give us our tools back because honestly dear theif, we need them pretty damn bad.

Turns out that our next door neighbor Anna had someone break into her basement storage area at the same time, with a broken off crowbar that they left there (likely full of prints). I reported the theft of our items to the Police, who said that they would not stop by to check the footprints in the sawdust nor the prints on the door and broken window that the entered from as "we don't do that, well, maybe for a bigger crime". What? Oh that's right, they weren't interested in checking prints when our car was broken into either. Cops only do those amazing cop-things on TV, never in real life and certainly not in Sweden. Here you simply call in a report. And they file it. What a great counry to be a theif in, it's not as if anyone will ever look for you. The only way they'd come and check the crime scene is if more people would call in about this particular theft they said, so I pushed our neighbor Anna to please report the break in of her storage space.

She hasn't. The phone-queue turned her off she said. In conclusion, I guess neighbors kind of suck too.

ps - insurance totally sucks - expensive tools in a locked basement are not covered.

Happy as can be as we prepared to leave. Her door is now in the basement with no chance of getting finished.