Woman Tries To Be A Good Girlfriend, Ends Up With Stolen License Plates

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mattstaff
May 7, 2021 5:00 PM EDT

Man oh man, nothing's worse than trying to do something good, purely good, out of the kindness of your warm soul, only to have the universe seemingly insist on dealing you a nasty hand. In this case, we have a kindhearted girlfriend who went out of her way to try and secure her partner a nice video game controller, only to have her dang license plates stolen. Hopefully that thief gets a nice serving of brutal instant karma. 

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    Font - r/tifu u/amidoingthisright27 · 6d + Join 2 2 e 3 3 6 3 TIFU by trying to be a good girlfriend M Some backstory: My boyfriend is a huge nerd and has been completely obsessed with Clone Hero (a Guitar Hero knockoff) for the past month. We're both broke right now so he's been playing with his keyboard instead of an actual guitar controller. I wanted to do something nice for him so I started searching online for second hand controllers that would work with the pc.
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    Font - Turns out those specific Guitar Hero controllers are considered vintage to some degree and cost $100+ used. There was nothing local on Craigslist so I turned to my old friend Goodwill. After a week of crawling through every store in my small county I found nothing but disappointment. That brings us to today. 9:00 am: I woke up this morning, on my Friday, on a do- or-die quest to find one of these damn controllers. I traveled about 45 minutes to the next city over in hopes that Goodwills i
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    Font - 3:00 pm: Went to a shady retro video game store and they had the right one!! Only caveat is that it was nearly nonfunctional and the guy was charging $80, plus he was a dick when I asked if he could lower the price because it was broken. No thanks. 4:00 pm: This is where it all went wrong. I found my third Goodwill of the day and walked inside once again, expecting my dreams to be crushed. Unsurprisingly, there were no controllers to be found. What I did find though when I walked back out
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    Font - 5:00 pm: Okay, so order new plates through the DMV, easy. Except they just closed and won't be open until Monday to process my online request. And even still, that could take up to 2 days. Obviously it's illegal to drive without plates so I checked online and someone suggested letting highway patrol know that they were stolen. Cool, their office is also closed until tomorrow morning. The 24 hour hotline suggested I call local police to file a report. After giving them my location, the off
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    Font - 7:00 pm: l'm sitting in what appears to be a stolen vehicle, in front of a Goodwill, eating $2 tacos from a food truck. No sign of the police, no sign of my missing plates, and still no goddamn Guitar Hero controller to show for it. 8:00 pm: and l'm convinced they've forgotten about me. It's getting dark, l'm exhausted, I need to pee, and if I don't change my tampon soon l'll probably end up with toxic shock syndrome. this! It's been 2 hours since l've called
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    Font - 8:15 pm: I decided to wait a few more minutes and the officer showed up right as I was about to leave. He took my information and gave me a get out of jail free card. 8:30 pm: I'm on my way home with nothing to give my boyfriend and 2 less license plates than when I started. Overall I would consider today a success. TL;DR Wanted to buy a guitar hero controller for my boyfriend and ended up calling the cops on myself. 278 30 ↑, Share
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