Bike Theft Thwarted

The manager at our apartment complex, Dorris, has been on a crusade to get all the bikes that no one ever uses out of here.   There are bikes locked up along the stairs all over.  Tons of bikes.  Some people move and never take their bikes, so some are just abandoned.  Some bikes get so rusty with the salty sea air that they are unusable.  All people with a bike they actually use had to put a yellow tag on it, so Dorris would know not to get rid of it.

I tagged my bike a few weeks ago.

Yesterday, I happened upon Dorris while I was doing laundry.  She mentioned that they were getting rid of all the abandoned bikes.  I looked at my bike.  Rather, I looked at the spot where my bike used to be.

I say, "my bike is gone."  Dorris knew I had tagged it, so she starts frantically trying to find the people (scum lords) who were in charge of getting rid of (selling, hawking, trading for illegal things) the abandoned bikes.

I followed Dorris to the other side of the complex, and luckily we found the truck with the bikes on it.  Dorris said, "that's her bike!"  The guy on the truck said, "which one?"  Dorris said, "the one with the yellow tag on it!"  Morons.

So, they got my bike off the truck and Dorris got pissed at the woman (scum) who was in charge of the bike round up.  The woman (scum) insisted she TRIPLE checked to make sure she wasn't taking any bikes that belonged to people.  Somehow, my bike, with the yellow tag, got taken anyway.  Strange.  My bike was three minutes away from being taken to who knows where, never to be seen again.  I had already decided I was going to demand $450 if it was gone.

Then, I told the woman (scum) that I wanted my cable back because it was a $45 cable.  She told me she would give me a new one that was worth "way, way more" than that.  Dorris said I'd have to approve whatever cable she gave me, or else she'd have to buy me a new one.  Dorris told her I am an attorney.  The woman (scum) said she was sorry, and I said it was okay.  Anyone else, my old man included, would have made her regret the day she even thought about loading my bike on that truck.  She's lucky it was me.

Later that day, when I went to get my dry clothes, I saw my cable slung over a couple of beach cruisers that the woman (scum) had claimed as her own, as they had been abandoned by others.  It wasn't locked up.  So, I took back my cable.  I wonder if she was going to give me my own cable and then say that it was worth "way, way more" than it was?

She was supposed to give me my new cable and lock last night, but never did.  Surprise, surprise.  This is what happens when you send a scum bag to do an idiot's job.