The Bike Saga

Some of you may remember our frustration with our apartment complex on the lack of bike-storage space. No racks anywhere, and mean notices if you leave the bike anywhere public. For months, Matt had his old bike on the balcony, but then took it to work and left it in a bike rack there. Since he bought the new bike, it has been living in the entryway to the apartment (the old one was still at work). As the old one is fairly broken and definitely not worth repairing, Matt was going to throw it out. So he brought it home and was going to take it to the dumpster the next day. However, it was raining at that point, so he left it under the stairs. No lock or anything, just leaning against the wall. I guess we were hoping that someone would either "steal" it or the apartment people would impound it (as threatened). It lasted a week down there, though, with no one bothering it.

Yesterday after Mass, however, we noticed two things. First, the bike was gone. Second, it had been replaced by a pink little-girl's bike (which is still there).

Later on in the day, Matt found his bike. It had been moved to the leasing office and was propped up near the rent drop-box. So... we're still not sure exactly what is going on with it. Did management make good on their threat to impound it, only to realize that they don't have anywhere to put it either? Did someone take it and then realize that it's broken and so they gave up on it? Is someone waiting for us to come look for it (which we won't)? Hmm...