stolen: digital timer by chris rhee

posted on May 1st, 2006 in stolen items

So whenever I find some free time, I’d like to write a note or two about some of the items that were stolen.

I thought I’d start it off by writing about something I already bought back with my own money (yeah, I took the $8.11 hit): my digital timer.

It has 3 buttons and it counts down from the number of hours/minutes you choose. It’s super simple and really portable. I use it for damn near everything: from dedicating a certain amount of time for work, as an alarm, kitchen timer (the kitchen is downstairs and I never use the oven timer, so I gotta trust this thing right here) and it has about 500 other uses in my daily life.

Now, not only was this handy gadget stolen… It turns out that I must’ve bought one of the few that actually worked. I bought the same brand as the one that was stolen from the same store, but I had to get 3 replacements before getting a working one. I’m sure the customer service lady thought I was just smashing these on the ground after running out the store, too.

In between those replacements, I scoped out other digital timers from several different stores and they either had too many buttons, had a limit on the amount of time I could count down from, or were too complex for what I needed.

Luckily, the 3rd replacement’s the charm, but for something that should’ve been so simple, it was a big waste of time. Fuck you, thief. You stole my time away from me. (damn puns)