Happy update! Just had a call from a colleague who had a call from another colleague who had found the bike in the orchard and is now dropping it off in the building where I work! And everything was there. But the bike was definitely not there when I declared it missing, or yesterday when I went back to look for it. Wonder where it has been all this time....But as long as it is back and all the contents are back, I won't worry about where it's been off to. Maybe it just got bored of waiting for me and went off for a little joy ride on its own.
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10-12-2008, 05:19 AM #1
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10-12-2008, 05:27 AM #2
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Phew! Glad this story had a happy ending!
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10-12-2008, 05:42 AM #3
In through the out door..
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Truly bizarre, but a happy ending! Wonder if someone saw it and assumed it was stolen and planned to bring it back to you all along?
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10-12-2008, 07:53 AM #4
The Hills! The Hills! Eek
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Talked to UK on the phone a couple hours ago. Apparently the guy who found the bike saw the bike, horizontal in the overgrown orchard, but didn't see 5'10" red-headed UK-E picking apples a few trees further in.
Anyhoo, good samaritan that this near-sighted guy was, he thought "Oh Dear! Somebody's joy-ridden a bike and dumped it in the old orchard. I'd better lock it up safely back on campus." Happily, it's a small campus and there was a mutual acquaintance who put the two stolen bike stories together. So UK-E will be reunited with her bike tomorrow, and faith in humanity is restored. Or at least, that was the theory as of 2 hours ago. Could be there actually was a joy-ride and dump event between the two stories, or something else entirely. But the outcome is good all the same.
Half-marathon over. Sabbatical year over. It's back to "sacking shirt and oat cakes" as they say here.
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10-12-2008, 08:01 AM #5
I heart my bike
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Hooray for happy endings!!!
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10-12-2008, 10:16 AM #6
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Yippee skippee! Glad it came back!
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10-12-2008, 01:16 PM #7
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Great news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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