After doing an 8 mile MUni ride this morning, through countless stream crossings, mud, leaves and so on, I was riding the last few hundred feet to my car, when I reached down for my car key fob…and it was gone! I thought, OMG! How did this happen? I had no way to get into my car, and my cell phone was inside too!
My cycling shorts have a special key pouch with a strong velcro closure, and I always carry it there with no problems, until today. I checked my other pockets, my backpack in case I might have put it there, no luck. I then looked to see if there might be a hole in the key pouch, but there was not. It must have just “popped” out somewhere along the 8 miles, due to me not fully closing the velcro.
I thought my chances of finding this tiny, black key fob would be slim and none, especially if it had dropped into a running stream, or it might be hidden under leaves or mud. I decided I had to go back and retrace where I had been riding. This was like the proverbial needle in a haystack!
As I was heading back up the trail my eyes were darting everywhere, in an effort to visually check every square inch of ground, and I knew that it would be very hard to spot, if at all. About two miles back into the trail I was feeling less and less confident that I would find it, there was so much water, leaves, loose ground and mud.
At about mile three I stopped and was about to give up. I looked straight ahead and there it was, about 10 feet in front of me! On a smooth, dry patch of ground, like someone had found it and placed it so nicely right there! I couldn’t believe I’d found it, and said to myself, “maybe I should play the lottery today, haha!” From now on I’ll carry the fob in my backpack, with the ring attached to the built in hook!
