On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:46:04 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:


I really wish I had given up after looking for them for about 5 or 10
minutes.

Now that you bought the new ones, the old ones will be found right in the
middle of the floor.

I may have told this story before. In college my bicycle was stolen so
I bought another at the police auction. I liked it so I bought 3 more
just before school started inthe fall, to sell the other ones for a
profit. I sold two and kept the gold one because it was so beautiful.
Now I had two but only rode one.

2 or 3 years later, before leaving town, I sold the last one but
removed the speedometer first, because I didn't have one. Rented a
u-haul and took a lot of stuff to Brooklyn, NY. 3 or 4 years later,
came across the speedometer and wanted to put it on my bike, but the
center cable was missing. Looked everywhere in the box.

3 months later, I'm visiting my mother in Allentown, Pa. 2 hours away,
and she will sometimes find things and give them to me. This time it
was a cable. She had found it in a parking lot at a shopping center,
and when she picked it up, her husband asked, What do you want that
for? She said, MM might want it.

I get back to Brooklyn with it, and it's the perfect size and length
and has the right gear or square stub at both ends for the
speedometer. The speedometer worked fine.


For a while I tried to figure out if maybe I was at that shopping
center and dropped my cable, but that was just impossible.