"YOU STOLE MY BIKE TWO YEARS AGO!!!!"

When I was 14 I went to a party at my friend Paul's house. I rode my bike over there and ditched it in the bushes outside his front door where it could hide from street view. The night went on and when it was time for me to leave, my bike was GONE! There were so many people there I didn't know what had happened to it and was severely bummed out that it got stolen. I thought maybe someone took it thinking it was Paul's as a joke. I walked home broken hearted.
Two years later TWO YEARS! I was in the car with my sister and I saw a man riding my bike. I did not know this man, he looked like a bum. I knew it was my bike from the messed up upside-down handle bars I had broken, and the stickers I had placed along its frame. But most importantly I knew it in my heart. I rolled down the window and yelled out "YOU STOLE MY BIKE TWO YEARS AGO!!!!" and the man just waved, he waved! What kind of bike stealing hobo does that.

To this day I will never forget that bike stealing hobo. I've told this story to friends and have even brought up the memory of the incident with my friend Paul. Once night I made up a song bout my stolen bike that I like to sing from time to time.

-Mallory