I was getting off an uncrowded bus in Quito this week,
planning to pick up my principal laptop computer (at a repair shop)
that could not be repaired due to unavailability of parts
in Ecuador. I had with me an older, backup computer.
A woman also exiting on the bus stairs just behind me
started pushing hard into my side and back.
The distraction gave her accomplice just enough time
to lift the laptop from a box I was carrying. It was gone.
The moves were so smooth that I didn't understand
what had happened until it was over.
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The next day, I bought a new laptop (Lenovo brand, $379)
and a recharger that enabled me to also revive an old
Toshiba laptop as my new backup PC.
Although the computer screen for my formerly
primary laptop, a MacBook Pro, cannot be
obtained in Ecuador, I hope to replace the part on
my next US trip, as the MacBook was my primary
and most 'sofisticada computadora' and I would
like to put it back in operation as #1.
cccmedia in Quito
