A word from Scott..

Scott was emailing a friend of his in Oregon this evening...This was the content...."As for my own woes, we just brought our car to Boston from Indiana at Thanksgiving. Our hood was jammed shut and we had to pay $407 to have it fixed. Then we didn't pass the mechanical inspection (in order to get a city sticker for parking purposes) because our car needs some body work and a couple of other minor things. Body work? Who knew that you could fail an inspection because of body work!? The Honda dealer told us that it would cost around $2500 to get it into passable condition. I brought it home from the failed inspection and parked it on the street as usual. That night it was broken into. The thief pried our window open, tried to get the stereo out, scratched and dented up the face of it, but was ultimately unsuccessful. Angry at being foiled, he popped the trunk and stole my air compressor, worth $300. That thing must weigh 85 pounds, I wonder what he did with it. The next day we got a $20 ticket for not having an inspection sticker. Ugh. There's probably another ticket waiting for me on the car right now.Well, if it's not one thing, it's another. Life as a poor man, living in an affluent society is certainly difficult. Press on."