Last week I went to the gym with my buddy, James, and as we were going to our lockers he asked me, "Hey, is that your lock on the bench?"
I was fairly sure it wasn't because I always put my lock right back in my gym bag and it had been a few days since I'd been to the gym. Surely someone would have stolen this nice lock with an easily changeable combo by now. So I looked in my gym bag and I looked a little more thoroughly. Sure enough it was my lock. I just couldn't believe it, but it had dents from dropping it on the ground and it was the right size and it was sitting right in front of the locker that I always use.
James still thought it could be someone else's lock, but I was certain it was mine.
A few days later, I was in my car looking for something in the console between the seats and I found my lock again. Now this time I was equally surprised because after a strange event like finding my lock on a bench, I would be sure to stick my lock in its dedicated pocket in my gym bag right away so that I don't risk losing it again. Fortunately I had my gym bag in the back seat, so I pulled it up and checked the pocket, and I found my lock again. ??? I had TWO LOCKS! It turns out that the one in the gym wasn't mine after all. I'll have to give one to the lost & found and if it's not claimed, I can probably keep it.
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Good to see you on the blogosphere again. It is a funny story. I can imagine your surprise at finding your lock yet again.. in the car.
How funny! Could you tell the real one by testing the combination?
That really is a cool picture. What's the name, again, for that kind of a shot?
It's called a bokeh picture. I think bokeh is Japanese. It means that the photo is focused on an object that is so close that everything else is blurry.
I did notice that the combination on the lock in the gym was different, but this kind of lock, you can change the combo, so that wasn't such a big clue. I just reset the combo 'back' to my normal combo and then they were the same. Now there is no way for me to know which one really was mine in the first place.
That is a nice picture. For some reason I thought it was a stock photo from the internet at first.
I had a problem earlier this summer with one of those "set your own combo" locks. I set the combo while I was exhausted and somehow made a mistake. When I went to take the lock off, I couldn't open it. I ended up having to borrow some bolt cutters in order to remove the lock.
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