I Am Really Stupid and I am Not Sure if I am Still a Card Collector...

I am an idiot. I am very depressed right now. Last night I was supposed to work outside and I thought I would have a lot of time to post. I spent about 4 hours scanning cards and packed all of them into a shoe box along with everything I had from my set collections that I hadn’t posted yet. Thursdays are normally really slow, so I brought a ton of cards with me. I didn’t have my Carl Crawford cards with me fortunately, but I did have all of my 1951 Bowman (43 cards including Campanella, Snider, Ford, Berra, Fox, Mize, Roe, Sain, Vander Meer, Robin Roberts, Larry Doby, Hank Thompson and Danny Murtaugh) and all of my 1965 Topps (Clemente, Mays, Koufax, Aaron) plus all of my Topps Gold Rays cards (over 100 total) from over the years and all of my new 2010 Topps relics which were going to be the focus of my next contest. I had all of the Rays cards that I posted 2 days ago with me. The Aki silk, plus the David Price and Carl Crawford silk cards that I had JUST purchased were with me. Everything that has been shown on this blog in the past 2 weeks EXCEPT the Crawford PC and the Allen and Ginter cards from Duane and MOST of my 1964 Topps Giants were in the box. The 3 newest 1887 Allen and Ginter cards I had acquired (Jake Kilrain, Gem Smith and Jimmy Carney) that were still in their stupid PSA slabs, were all in there. When I say “in there” I am referring to the shoe box filled with cards that I had left in my car last night when I thought I was going to work parking lot security. I didn’t lock the door because I thought I would be outside all night. Thursday is a very slow night and I planned on posting ahead, filling up the queue with a ton of posts to go up automatically. Underneath that shoebox of cardboard gold was 2 notebooks filled with story ideas and letters and class notes. I also had my Pirates and Rays media guides. I also had my address book (yes I still write all of my addresses and phone numbers down) which had all of my business contacts in it. I had just got the Bucs Media guide that day and I had a 1952 Bowman card of Billy Meyer bookmarking his page in it because I had a feature on him that I had been working on. All of the notes from that, including a letter from his grandson were in there. My AP Style book and calculus text book were also in there as was a 1966 Lou Brock card that I had just bought that day. I was trying to decide whether to be greedy and keep it or send it out to my favorite Cardinals fan. All of these things, plus my cholesterol medication sat on the front seat of my car. At least I had the sense to bring my lap top inside with me. Anyway, after work was done I was the last person to go out to my car. We shut down at midnight because it was so slow and we were shorthanded anyway. Normally we stay open 24-7. Anyway, when I arrived at my car the passenger’s door was ajar and EVERYTHING that I had left in it was gone. Cards that I had been collecting since I was a kid. Generous gifts from people all over the country and the world. Prizes for this silly blog. All gone. It was my fault, I didn’t lock my door, but it doesn’t change the feeling of emptiness I have going on right now. I have the flash drive with all of the images of all of these cards in my hand right now. Fortunately I had already mailed out some packages, so those cards didn’t get taken, but most of it was still there. Most of my Rays autos and all of my spring training autos were in there. Cards for my little brother (not all of them) were in there. I still have my 2010 Topps base cards and some inserts safely in my binder, but ALL of the relics are gone. My Longoria collection (except for one auto that is on my mantle) is gone. My new player collections that I was planning on unveiling on the Nitty Gritty of Billy Pierce, Mudcat Grant, Willie Stargell, Bill Mazeroski, Don Newcombe, Tony Oliva, Bill Virdin, Bob Friend, Roy Face, Rod Carew, Duke Snider, Mike Cuellar and Steve Carlton are all gone. There were also 2 special baseballs that I got signed at spring training for my fellow bloggers and a piece of memorabilia from a Pirates pitcher that I know a Cubs fan really likes. I am pretty freaking bummed out right now. Some of the useless scans are posted here. This really sucks. The good news is there is only one card shop in town here. Someone will try and move these cards eventually and my friend Frank from Ryan's Sportscards knows exactly what I lost. I really hope this person trys to sell my stuff soon. Go Rays, troll out.