Rolfe
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It's common knowledge that I keep my car key inside my bra, so I never even have to think about which pocket or handbag it's in, and do I have it on me. Last night when I came back from my road trip I was aware that it had fallen on the bedroom floor when I was getting undressed, but I didn't do anything to tidy it up. This morning I was putting more or less the same clothes on, and looked around for the key, but couldn't see it. Oh well, I wasn't taking the car out, so I just left it. I know it's there somewhere, I'll get it later. Got on my bike to go to church. Nothing noteworthy happened on the 500-yard journey as far as I noticed.
Fast forward an hour and a half, after everyone had hung around drinking extra coffee to wait for the monsoon to stop, and I'd finished admiring the green X-Power parked right outside the church gate, and I set off home. Pedalling like mad because the sky was still thinking about flooding the place. Half way there I saw something indistinct on the tarmac. Was that...? Screeching halt and about-turn.
There, nearly in the middle of the road, was an MG4 key, coming apart with the mechanical key detached from the rest of it. Dismissing a wild idea that it could have had something to do with that X-Power, I picked it up, took it home, and proved it was mine by unlocking Caliban. Somehow it must have been in a pocket of something I was wearing, got put back on, and got loose while I was cycling to church. (But it was definitely in my bra yesterday and I definitely saw it on the floor at one point.)
It's fine. It must have been run over several times as it's slightly scratched and dented, but I put it back together again and it works perfectly.
If someone had noticed it during the hour and a half it was lying there, and picked it up? If something really heavy (like an X-Power?) had gone over it and smashed it? Most of all, suppose I just hadn't seen it when I rode back along the road?! Lucky me, basically.
Fast forward an hour and a half, after everyone had hung around drinking extra coffee to wait for the monsoon to stop, and I'd finished admiring the green X-Power parked right outside the church gate, and I set off home. Pedalling like mad because the sky was still thinking about flooding the place. Half way there I saw something indistinct on the tarmac. Was that...? Screeching halt and about-turn.
There, nearly in the middle of the road, was an MG4 key, coming apart with the mechanical key detached from the rest of it. Dismissing a wild idea that it could have had something to do with that X-Power, I picked it up, took it home, and proved it was mine by unlocking Caliban. Somehow it must have been in a pocket of something I was wearing, got put back on, and got loose while I was cycling to church. (But it was definitely in my bra yesterday and I definitely saw it on the floor at one point.)
It's fine. It must have been run over several times as it's slightly scratched and dented, but I put it back together again and it works perfectly.
If someone had noticed it during the hour and a half it was lying there, and picked it up? If something really heavy (like an X-Power?) had gone over it and smashed it? Most of all, suppose I just hadn't seen it when I rode back along the road?! Lucky me, basically.
