{"id":1692,"date":"2010-03-04T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T02:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:32:57","slug":"reader-contemplates-a-new-hobby-thursday-march-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/reader-contemplates-a-new-hobby-thursday-march-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Contemplates a New Hobby &#8211; Thursday March 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ht_ab_tamayo_ajar_neisr_prugo_ames_lopez_100303_ssh-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"ht_ab_tamayo_ajar_neisr_prugo_ames_lopez_100303_ssh\" title=\"ht_ab_tamayo_ajar_neisr_prugo_ames_lopez_100303_ssh\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1693\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ht_ab_tamayo_ajar_neisr_prugo_ames_lopez_100303_ssh-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ht_ab_tamayo_ajar_neisr_prugo_ames_lopez_100303_ssh.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<br \/>\nI was reading an article in Vanity Fair about &#8220;The Bling Ring&#8221;  It was a bunch of rich kids who had the balls to break into celebrities&#8217; homes and steal stuff.  Their justification boiled down to little more that &#8220;We wanted more stuff.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nAt first I was outraged.  Then I was disgusted.  Then I wondered why celebrities don&#8217;t have security systems in their homes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nMy Grandmother has a security system and all she has to steal is some grapefruit juice and stockings from the 1970&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nAre celebrities really that dumb?<br \/>\nSigned,<br \/>\nShould I Steal Stuff Too?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dear Should I Steal Stuff Too,<br \/>\nFrom what I read, the celebs did have security systems.  They just also left windows or doors unlocked.  So I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re dumb or if they&#8217;re houses are just too big.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSee, that&#8217;s why I live in a 500 square foot apartment with a roommate and a dog.  It&#8217;s easy to clean (if I were so inclined) easy to find stuff (check the piles on the floor first) and easy to lock up (turn lock on door, latch single window). <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe other trick to not getting robbed is not to fill your home with Rolex&#8217;s and designer clothes.  A Casio calculator watch and two pairs of Levis ought to do the trick, whether your a celebrity or just take a low interest in your appearance.  We need to divorce ourselves, as a culture from thinking things are really cool.  You know what&#8217;s really cool?  ACTUALLY BEING COOL.  Although that&#8217;s very difficult- not for me, but for other people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nP.S. Don&#8217;t steal stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I was reading an article in Vanity Fair about &#8220;The Bling Ring&#8221; It was a bunch of rich kids who had the balls to break into celebrities&#8217; homes and steal stuff. Their justification boiled down to little more that &#8220;We wanted more stuff.&#8221; &nbsp; At first I was outraged. Then I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/reader-contemplates-a-new-hobby-thursday-march-4th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reader Contemplates a New Hobby &#8211; Thursday March 4th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}