So Monday morning, right? I'm getting ready to take Allison to school and I set my laptop bag down on the curb while I get the girls in their seats and seatbelts and then I get in the car and I drive away.
That's right. I left it on the curb.
I figured this out when I got down to Allison's school so I raced back thinking please let it be there. Please let it be there. Alas, it was not. My laptop. My phone. My camera. My wallet.
I had to assume someone stole it, so I went to a payphone to call Joe. I went to campus to look for him, he wandered around looking for me. Eventually we found each other and I borrowed his phone to cancel credit and debit cards and then I went home to feel sorry for myself because I no longer had a computer and, while most of my data was backed up, not many of my notes were and none of my lectures. Not that I'm that far ahead on class prep but I had a few lectures ready already.
Sigh.
Meanwhile, Joe had the superb idea to put a sign on the tree out front saying did you find a bag, if so call this number. About 9pm, I got a call on Joe's phone from a man who said he had my bag. This was good news. He brought it by and I opened it up.
To discover everything in it was broken. Laptop. Camera. Phone. Non-functional. What's up with that, yo? I wasn't sure until I remembered that I *thought* I'd driven over the curb pulling away. See, Allison thinks this is funny. So we drove over something and she laughed and told me I was a bad driver. Which I might be because, see, I drove over my bag. With my laptop in it. And the camera. And my phone.
So how am I typing this? Well, when you're in a tight spot, call yer mom. She might just help you out. My mom sprang for a new laptop, for which I am most grateful, and I picked it up today and I am back to poaching a signal.
As it happens, the hard drive of my old laptop could be salvaged, so all of my data is intact, so that is also very good news. We're out $57 to replace the phone and we don't have a camera anymore. It could be worse. I could have run over Sonja or something, you know?
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2 comments:
Oh, man. I'm glad you got your data back, though.
Dude! This sounds like something that would happen to me (minus the mom buying the laptop- how great was that?!?!), but I am sooooo glad it happened to you instead!
One question: why were there so many expensive important items in the same bag? Is it common for people to do this? Usually my laptop bag is too heavy to add my other crap.
I love you! It's funny how our friendship has been reduced to reading and commenting on each other's blogs.
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