Hey Grey,

Oldtenspeedgallery.com has a grey Fuji Monterey with some green in the trim, though it doesn't look like a hybrid. See:
http://oldtenspeedgallery.com/owner-...fuji-monterey/

Also, jaxed.com offers a way to easily search for a bike on both ebay and craigslist in multiple cities. Here are curent listings for Fuji Monterey:
http://www.jaxed.com/cgi-bin/mash.cg...nterey&ys=&ye=

I hope that at least a picture of your bike turns up.

It sounds as though your Dad tried to evade responsibility for throwing away something that was yours.

I have a friend who sometimes says "I thought you would want..." and I've come to realize she doesn't just ask me whatever it is I might want because she wants to control the situation.

There are many positive aspects of my friend, while this trait is a bit of a snag, though sometimes laughable.

On another note, I recently met a man in his late 60's who had fought in Viet Nam, only to return home and find that his father had thrown away his Raleigh 10-speed bike.

This happened almost 40 years ago and the sadness and resentment he felt about it was still apparent when he told me about it. I felt his pain. What his Dad did was wrong.

My mother and sister threw away my baseball card collection when I was about 12 years old. I guess they thought it was no longer appropriate for me to have an interest in baseball.

I consider their action stealing; it was wrong and disrespectful. Even so, the richness of experiences I had with my mom and sister certainly outbalance this one negative incident. I love and like them both.

But I would still like to have my baseball cards back, two shoeboxes full of them -- Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Nellie Fox, Roger Maris, a vintage Ty Cobb card, a vintage Babe Ruth card, Yogi Berra, Hank Bauer and many more.

I'm thinking there's a special corner in heaven, call it Cloud 9 Lost and Found, where all the thrown away and stolen bikes and baseball cards and other long gone, lost items will all appear once more.

Then the owners can own what's rightfully theirs once again.