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Back in around 2002, the site where my office was located needed the offices because, due to the BP Texas City disaster, housing people in trailers in a chemical operating site was now illegal.
Since I was corporate, I got moved to a rental office about 3 miles away until the new office building was completed.
I didn't want to tear down an office, pack everything, unpack & do it again in 4 months.
So, I packed everything, left in my car until I got my office back.
In the 4 months, spring came so I started driving the convertible. My winter car (an old Buick Regal) was parked in front of the house.
When the offices became available again, I was going to drive that car to work & unpack.
The boxes in the back seat were gone. And, they popped the trunk and stole those too
All my textbooks, about a dozen corporate awards & certificates, and the 4 diplomas. (My MBA diploma was never at work.)
So, my BS in Chem, MS in Organic Chem, PhD certificate, & MS in applied mathematics; all gone.
My worst fear is that whoever stole them were disappointed to find books on mechanistic, polymer, spectral, organonitrate, thermodynamics and so on. They probably became campfire starters.