A homeless guy in Berkeley once stole a stack of CDs from my dorm room. He pawned them right away for cash.Before this weekend, though, I'd never come home to gaping cabinet and dresser drawers, their vintage contents strewn about like rejected strands of pearls.
As we followed the fresh trail of mud left by the gendarmes' boots up to the cambrioleurs' dry sneaker prints, I thought: "C'est la crise."
Why else would a group of teenagers in rural France have gone to all this trouble for a decade-old computer and a DVD player?
If it weren't for our upside-down value system, they surely would've at least tried to take off with a prized stamp collection or a Picasso copy or two.
Cary Grant and Sophia Loren as Tom Winters and Cinzia Zaccardi. [Online image] 1958.
