Broken Glass… everywhere
DON’T PUSH ME CAUSE I’M CLOSE TO THE… EDGE!!!
Yesterday was a rough one. Here’s the NBA part of this post: KG turned down a trade to Boston, he wants to play for Phoenix, and Lang should have the SLAMMYs later today. I am not able to focus on basketball right now.
Yesterday I went in to work early so I could get some things done and leave by 12:30. Got home to my car, ready to drive to Connecticut and was greeted by this sight. Not cool man. Not cool. Nothing was missing, not even my GPS or the coins for parking. That’s what I get for living too close to where the Nate Robinson streetball cover was shot.
A neighborhood snitch came by and told me he saw what happened. It was a tractor trailer that was too big for the turn. This happened on Tuesday night, so the car was sitting there with no window and the glove compartment wide open for over 24 hours. We don’t know how the glove compartment was opened, but I assume it was someone walking by and reaching in.
I could continue this story and get angrier and angrier. Have you ever driven 75 MPH with saran wrap over your door? It’s terrifying. But that rarely happened on the way up there cause traffic was the worst.
I can not think rationally right now. All I want to do is go to the gym and vent frustrations through physical activity, but I have to find the right auto glass place.
Lang has his pieces of the backboard that Dwight Howard shattered in a high school photo shoot. I have the passenger side of my car. This is the third time something like this has happened to my precious Corolla. One time, someone stole a CD case that contained untold thousands of illegally downloaded MP3s. This isn’t as bad as that, other than the fact that upon discovery I still had to drive 100 miles.
Yesterday I remember thinking hey maybe this will at least be a funny story or I can have a lot of anger and emotion if I choose to write about it, but it’s beyond that point. I am a beaten man. My one week summer vacation starts in 15 days.
The only good news from this whole fiasco is that nobody took the Nets media parking pass pictured here inside the glove compartment, cause just imagine the damage that thing could do in the wrong hands. Okay, time to enter the wonderful world of glass repair. To the anonymous tractor trailer driving coward, I hope you get what’s coming to you. Thanks for not leaving a note and also smashing a tail light and taking the bumper off a jeep around the corner.
53 Responses to “Broken Glass… everywhere”
Jun.22 at 8:28 am
Cheryl says:
Damn, living in the city is no joke. I remember one 2 month period a few years ago, while living in Oakland, my car was broken into 4 times!! To steal some cheap a$$ stereo I had in an old Volvo. I remember want to hide out and beat the crap out of the perp. I had visions of murder, for real! I feel your pain, Sam. But you gotta let it go; it’s just a material thing (or so everyone told me–it didn’t help). –ASPOV
Jun.22 at 8:42 am
Ryan Jones says:
Sam, I hope this makes you feel better:
pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/rss/s_508672.html
But I don’t expect it will.
Jun.22 at 8:44 am
white hot eboy says:
Sam, that’s bullsh*t but hey, not having anything gone from the car seems UNBELIEVABLE!!!! That really is lucky on your part. I guess they left the press pass because really, who would want to see the Nets?
Jun.22 at 8:49 am
jay says:
sorry to hear it bro…that suxs!!! keep your chin up!! !it is friday!
Jun.22 at 9:08 am
Ryan Jones says:
Also, totally coincidentally, the Kweli song that inspired your headline just came up on my iTunes at work. So maybe this was meant to be.
Jun.22 at 9:09 am
Slobodan Chutzpah says:
Was that a Talib Kweli reference..? I have indeed had to drive around with a piece of plastic wrapped on the car window - and it was something like -10 Celsius outside. Alas, I couldn’t blame anyone else, since, in my infinite wisdom, I had accidentally broken the glass myself after forgetting the keys inside the car (which, incidentally, was also a Corolla)… After that the door wouldn’t lock so I just left it open. No one ever took anything - mainly ’cause there was nothing to take. (The lesson here: you should never leave anything of value inside your car, unless you have a state-of-the-art security system. And not even then.) But yeah, I know it sucks, but don’t let it get you down - these things happen to car owners.
Jun.22 at 9:25 am
Young Chris #3 says:
It’s no wonder the Celtics suck. No free agent will sign with them and no star player will accept a trade to Boston. Does anyone know KG’s take on the Warriors? Will he play in Oakland?
Jun.22 at 9:49 am
Nadav says:
to qoute next friday: “that makes me not even wanna drive it”
Jun.22 at 9:58 am
M.K. Petrik says:
At least it wasn’t winter!
Jun.22 at 9:59 am
M.K. Petrik says:
Such a random comment, what I meant to say is that at least this incident didn’t occur during the winter months and having to drive home with a smashed window!
Jun.22 at 10:13 am
dez says:
That really does suck. Gotta love NYC.
Jun.22 at 10:32 am
Mooks says:
Talib Kweli? Eff that noise — it’s a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ref! Know your history!
Jun.22 at 10:33 am
Mooks says:
Oh wait… unless you’re talking about the “broken glass… everywhere” ref. Jeez. My bad.
Jun.22 at 10:40 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
No Mooks, you are correct. It was a Message reference. It is like a jungle sometimes. Life that is.
Car is in the pros hands now.
Had to take in emergency gym session for mental health. Feeling less crazed.
Jun.22 at 10:52 am
Steve O says:
That blows and driving with plastic windows is even worse especially because we had that rain storm in CT yesterday, musta been a b*tch
Jun.22 at 10:58 am
Esco says:
Yeah it’s Grandmaster Flash and ‘em…and Broken Glass is a talib song also…so you can’t go wrong either way. And yeah, gym does help. Sorry for your car. Install a camera system so you can see when it happens next time and then you can find the f*cker and make him pay for it…then kill him.
Jun.22 at 10:59 am
Esco says:
I’m sorry…Talib. Real MC’s deserve caps.
Jun.22 at 11:06 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
the rainstorm didn’t hit until we were up in CT and the car was parked. One funny moment is that I was under intense pressure to pull off a perfect parallel park in a tight spot with all of this traffic coming, so I had to start singing Don’t Stop Believing while I did it.
You people are right. Things could have been worse. If we weren’t going up to CT yesterday, I might have not known about my car until MOnday night.
Jun.22 at 11:07 am
Sesa says:
I’m sorry for what happens to your car Sam. Be strong and patient. I found that sexual activity is the right thing to channel all my frustration into. Maybe you should try it too. Hope my comments ease your pain.
Jun.22 at 11:20 am
Ryan Jones says:
“Broken Glass,” track 3, I believe, off of The Beautiful Struggle, by Talib Kweli, the hook from which goes “Broken glass/everywhere.” I said “headline,” and that’s the headline, and that’s a Kweli reference, whether Sam knows it or not. I hope somebody breaks your other window.
Jun.22 at 11:38 am
SMK says:
Coincidentally, being too big to turn also doomed Tractor Traylor’s NBA career.
Jun.22 at 11:49 am
Drew says:
Clearly Talib Kweli was quoting the older song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. “Jungle” was probably the first good hip hop song that made the charts. I said good song, so you can’t count anything by the Cherry Hill posers. “Jungle” started with “Broken glass, everywhere,” and the refrain was the quote about close to the edge. Talib was 5 years old when the song came out.
Jun.22 at 11:53 am
H to the izzo says:
Another great track from that album is”Around my Way” with John Legend
Jun.22 at 12:15 pm
Kiyan says:
Sorry to hear about that, Sam. Cheer up, you probably weren’t as shocked as this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs
Jun.22 at 12:19 pm
Reggie Evans says:
Sesa - LOL
Jun.22 at 12:20 pm
Reggie Evans says:
Sam - that sucks
Jun.22 at 12:23 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
You’d think someone as old as Ryan would have been into the Grandmaster Flash reference not some rapper from my generation. Flash is before my time but I know my history. My brother who is 8 years older than me used to force me to do “Peter Piper” with him in the back of the car of family trips.
Jun.22 at 12:25 pm
Ryan Jones says:
BUT AS STATED THE KWELI SONG WAS PLAYING ON MY ITUNES AT THE EXACT SAME TIME I READ SAM’S COLUMN THUS OF COURSE I REFERENCED IT BESIDES I’M GUESSING KWELI’S CLOSER TO MY AGE THAN HE IS SAM’S AND FLASH IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE MY MUCH OLDER BROTHER AND F*CK YOU PEOPLE ANYWAY THANK YOU GOODNIGHT.
Jun.22 at 12:29 pm
Slobodan Chutzpah says:
As Jonesy pointed out, I obviously was referring to the headline - any idiot would know the origins of “Don’t push me…”. What this particular idiot hadn’t realised though was that the Kweli track references the Flash classic. Stoopid me.
Jun.22 at 12:31 pm
Slobodan Chutzpah says:
Wow. All caps. You don’t see that everyday from Ryan.
Jun.22 at 12:35 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
They are both good songs. Better than when Mase/Puffy did their version of it and threw in the Hertz rent-a-car jingle for good measure.
Jun.22 at 12:47 pm
Slobodan Chutzpah says:
Then again, I’m pretty sure Puffy and Mase put together = the Devil incarnate.
Jun.22 at 12:51 pm
H to the izzo says:
Who do you hate worse Puffy or Diddy or whatever or “Murda Mase”?
Jun.22 at 1:01 pm
Allenp says:
SMK is funny. I used to get my car broken into all the time in DC. They used to steal the change i kept in the ashtray. Crackheads.
Jun.22 at 2:38 pm
Boing Dynasty says:
Do you really wanna hurt mase?
Jun.22 at 2:41 pm
Boing Dynasty says:
By the was i read that Mase smashed his truck into a parked car while circeling a block numerous times while trying to pick-up transvestite hookers. Im jus saying…
Jun.22 at 2:41 pm
bobby stew says:
my car got broken into and stolen exactly a year ago from the day your car just got jacked.
Jun.22 at 3:04 pm
jbn74sb says:
Sam - You’re big time now. DOn’t let it get to your head. From truehoop, with a link to this post. “Tough time to be Sam Rubenstein’s car.”
Jun.22 at 4:03 pm
Sparker says:
can’t take the smell, can’t take the noise, got no money to move out so i guess i got no choice… heuh hah hah hah… it’s like like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how i keep from goin’ under… heuh hah hah hah
Jun.22 at 4:10 pm
Sparker says:
and on the off chance that it makes you feel better, the last time i had my car stolen it showed up three days later in a city two hundred miles away with nothing left inside but an empty quart bottle of beer under the passenger seat…
Jun.22 at 4:11 pm
Sparker says:
and no, a la lebowski, the police did not feel inclined to dust for prints…
Jun.22 at 4:21 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
True Hoop knows quality. I should point out that I just bought new batteries for my camera 30 seconds before the discovery. It’s like it was meant to be documented.
Sparker that is messed up and amusing.
Jun.22 at 4:45 pm
DK52 says:
Sam I bet that kid that snitched on the tractor was the culprit. He probably smashed it playing ball or something that’s why he blamed a tractor. I have seen it happen before. It’s all good though in a few days you will forget all about it, and I’m sure Slam is taking good care of you, so paying for the damages probably isn’t what your too worried about. HANG IN THERE BROTHER!!!!
Jun.22 at 4:59 pm
Shiz says:
Two years ago I was down on Canal St. and this dude pulled up in this fresh ass black Benz CLK. And just chilled on the corner, stuntin like his sh*t didn’t stink (ya know, cell phone held with his elbow out like it helps reception, yelling mad loud as if his make-shift elbow antenae dont work no more). Well, along comes a bus and CRRRRRRRRK! sideswipes the entire driver’s side. The worst part was, with traffic and the angle of the accident, the driver ended up pinned inside and had to climb over the arm rest and out the passenger side - tryin to stay fly, yet going absolutely apesh*t the whole time. Needless to say, raucus laughter ensued…At least ya didn’t get humiliated, and at least it wasn’t a CLK.
Jun.22 at 7:49 pm
Drolfe says:
24 hours of a wide open window and nothing taken?? The real hero here is the city of New York.
Jun.22 at 8:13 pm
smush says:
strange…i got a corolla also, my window was also smashed, and all that was taken was my CD case with about 200 cds and my “chemical warfare” device, and this was just while i was at the movies, very frustrating…more frustrating is that this took place in New Hampshire, yea… and i have lived in NYC and cant believe you got away a whole night with ur window out, wow
Jun.22 at 8:28 pm
Sesa says:
@Reggie.
I’m not jokin’ here.
Jun.23 at 1:40 am
the anonymous tractor trailer driving coward says:
My bad. I didn’t mean to f*ck up yo car. It was a crappy car anyways, so don’t be b*tchin’ ’bout it.
Jun.23 at 1:44 am
the anonymous tractor trailer driving coward says:
Why the hell is my comment awaiting moderation?
Jun.23 at 2:45 am
Chukaz says:
Sorry for your car.
Jun.23 at 8:15 pm
Blinguo says:
Damn you Robert Tractor Traylor!
Jun.25 at 12:34 pm
Yoda says:
@Boing Dynasty Do, or do not.
There is no “try” to pick up transvestites The story I heard, this dude hits another car and trannies come scurryin’ out of his like roaches out of that bag of chinese carry-out you forgot to eat and left on the kitchen floor three weeks ago.
Jun.25 at 3:42 pm
Troels says:
I thought the headline came from Mase’ first cd? Broken glass…everywhere, if aint about the money then i just don’t care…