Never have 1600 lei in your wallet

because if you do, it will get stolen. It will, trust me.

So, the following story will be funny for a variety of reasons. First, i had just returned from the "criminal" state of Transnistria and had set foot in the "legimitate" Moldovan state. Secondly, the irony only oozes thicker when it comes to light that I was on my way to pay my language professor, who happened to be on the same fucking trolleybus when it happened and who i probably was talking to when my oh so dear green freitag wallet was liften from my back pocket (yes, i know ... berate me please).

so here's the story. i take the trolleybus because marshrutka's (maxi-taxis) are hot, sweaty, and usually crowded. Buses are usually crowded but have more ventilation, and i usually get on at an odd stop so i figured what the hell. Anyhow, I didn't have the 1 lei handy so i had to take out my wallet and pay. to compound things, some fucking mother -- yes, she is a fucking mother, as her goddamn i'm from chisinau but i think i'm from new york stroller blocked all of the extra space which forced me to navigate for awhile until i settled in. next to some padlo grabbed my wallet and over $120 bucksof (gotta love american words with the russian genitive plural ending).

so immediately after the guy gets off i realize that the motherfucker stole my wallet but that it was totally fruitless to do anything except sit back and be happy that my passport wasn't gone.

Pizdetc!

Anyhow, i insisted on going to the police station if only to see what one was like. Let me say, i never want to get arrested in Moldova. Dudes were like cuffed to chairs, looking very unhappy. Policeman looked underpaid, overworked, and generally unwilling to take shit. But i made the report in the hopes that the pizda who stole my shit might throw it in the street where some policeman or otherwise fine citizen might return it.

Fuck it, as Bobick men say is situations like this. It was only a wallet, a driver's license, two credit cards, a few insurance documents, and some random other shit that i probably won't miss.