Unlikely coincidence

Lately I’ve been cleaning out old stuff I’ve had in storage for several years. I’ve found 18th birthday cards, ACT and SAT scores, college notebooks and all kinds of other unneeded detrius from years past.

U lock keys

U lock keys

In one box, I found a set of keys which didn’t seem like they belonged with anything else in the box. Normally, an orphan set of keys would be really annoying to me…yes, I know that sounds a little OCD. But in this case, it was a completely fortunate discovery.

Last month, my dad gave me an old Huffy mountain bike which I’d had back in college. I needed a bike for riding to and from work and he wanted to get the bike out of his garage. So, he cleaned it up and passed is along to me. Still attached in a bracket on the bike was the U lock I once used. However, my dad had no idea where the keys were, so I took off the lock and left it in my garage, thinking it was probably useless and needed to be thrown away (or recycled, if locks can be recycled).

So you’ve probably figured out the rest of the story by now…I tried the orphaned keys in the U lock just to see if I’d been on the receiving end of luck and sure enough, the keys matched the lock. Moral of the story: cleaning out old junk at the right time got me what amounts to a free U lock!