Comments | jmlittlewillow: Enraged -> Cranky -> Depressed -> Humbled

jmlittlewillow

Enraged -> Cranky -> Depressed -> Humbled

Aug 03, 2008 15:48

My damn bike was stolen last night. Right out of the basement in my apartment building. I went downstairs this morning, thinking I'd take a nice leisurely bike ride up to Coventry to buy these coasters I want at City Buddha. BUT NO! There at the bike rack was my lock, still intact, still locked--minus the bike. I feel like the biggest idiot on ( Read more... )

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mmmmeghan August 3 2008, 21:04:33 UTC

Sucks that your bike was stolen but wow, that was really sweet of your neighbor. I wish there were more people like that in the world.

franklin_arthur August 4 2008, 00:28:05 UTC

If you've kept up with my journal you know my story of suck and redemption. 25 friends got together and handed me $1500 to cover my homeowner's deductible and a burglar proof cage for my new a/c. Amazing.

I choose to focus on the touching part of the story rather than the suck part, but sadly I'm seeing a lot of suck these days. The same week my a/c was stolen I had friends in different cities who lost a laptop, an ipod, and a car window respectively. And apart from my a/c I've had a weed eater and a pressure washer stolen, all separate incidents. Every time I think I've taken measures to stop the theft they find a way around. And I live in a pretty tame neighborhood.

jmlittlewillow August 4 2008, 01:36:44 UTC

I have kept up with your story. That's so touching about your friends! People can be so awesome.

I live in a really tame neighborhood too--Cleveland HEIGHTS--It's a lot like Mountain Brook and supposedly one of the safest neighborhoods in the county...but then again, about three miles down the hill is East "Get shanked in the throat walking to the grocery store" Cleveland. We're talking Bone Thugs 'n' Harmony territory here.

But I've been doing some detectiving--driven by vindictiveness--and I'm seeing WAY too many coincidences in the situation. I might have to get all Harriet the Spy on this shit.

And wouldn't you know that my bike was stolen on National Forgiveness Day? That's what the NPR special said yesterday. What are the friggin odds?

decembrerose August 4 2008, 05:41:19 UTC

There was one place where I visited once that if you left your bike chained outside to one of the bike stands overnight, there'd be nothing but a frame left in the morning. I think that was Florence, Italy, but I could be misremembering. I'm glad your story turned out much nicer than the poor bicycle frame I saw abandoned on one street corner for days.