The other night I had just got off work from my second job down town and had gone to the supermarket to pick up some eggs and flour. It was late when I finally got off the bus and arrived on campus. I was cold because it was freezing and rainy out, tired, grumpy, had heavy bags and hungry because I hadn't eaten dinner yet. I walked over to the bike corral and started looking for where I left my bike. Since the campus is not well lit and there are no lights in the outside corral finding you bike is never an easy task for me. I looked and looked but I couldn't find it. Finally I put my bags down and started really looking (this kind of thing always happened to me at OSU in the parking garages as well).
After about 15 minutes of looking I realized that my bike had been stolen and I was totally sad and furious. Bike theft is common campus but I am always careful to lock mine with two separate locks. I was really mad because I love my bike and had spent a considerable amount of money on it. I also share it with Sean so I knew he would be upset as well. Disappointed, angry and frustrated with the Chinese and China in general, I called Sean in tears. He picked up the phone and after explaining the situation told me to calm down because the bike was at his place - he reminded me that I didn't use it that day, he did.
Oops. I felt immediately relieved and then ridiculous. It's crazy how a habit can make you so convinced that you did something even when you didn't. It's also a little nuts how a little tiredness, stress, emotion, grumpiness, hormones and frustration can produce these little snafus that happen pretty often for me. Fortunately, Sean knows how to calm me down and he rode the bike to where I was to pick me up. He was also nice enough to switch toothpastes with me - I wasn't very careful and accidentally had bought some kind of cantaloupe/bubblegum flavor (gag) instead of mint.
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