So, I was returning from Sonic with our foot-long coneys and tots (hey, don’t judge…you know you love ’em, too, especially topped with jalape\u00f1os and onions) and as I drove around the curve in front of the clubhouse, something black and tool-like resting in the middle of the street caught my eye. I backed up, open the car door, and retrieved the object.<\/p>\n
It was a lock-back razor knife housed in a carabiner-style frame, with swivel-out screwdrivers, one flat and one Phillips. I felt guilty picking it up – what if the owner realizes he lost it and comes looking for it? – but decided to take it home and send out a message on the neighborhood mailing list to see if anyone claimed it. If not, well, finders-keepers and all that.<\/p>\n
I put the tool on my workbench and we ate our guilty pleasures* and then I remembered my plan to email a note to the neighborhood. I went into the garage, picked up the tool, and thought, “this looks an awful lot like the one I have, only mine doesn’t have the screwdrivers.” I decided to compare the two, and reached up to the rack where I kept mine handy for all the box cutting work. I reached in vain, as mine was mysteriously missing.<\/p>\n
Only then did I realize that the owner of the lost tool was actually me. I had used it earlier in the afternoon to break down a carton so it would fit in the trash, and I laid it on the truck bed rail. I forgot to put it in its rightful place and when I later left for Sonic, it made it about two blocks (and two corners) before falling into the middle of the street, waiting for someone to pick it up. Which I did about twenty minutes later.<\/p>\n
There are many morals to this story, chief among them being that hot dogs destroy one’s cognitive abilities; also, you probably don’t know your tools as well as you think. But at least I didn’t have to feel guilty about taking someone else’s lost property.<\/p>\n
*Our 25 mile bike ride this morning served as our penance, and believe me, it felt like it.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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