I discovered the true meaning of happiness at about 9:30 this morning.
I got to work a little early today, so I decided to sit in a chair in the lobby and read. I didn’t realize that, while I was sitting down, my keys had slipped out of my pocket and onto the chair. This happened silently, so I didn’t notice that anything was wrong as I got up and headed up the escalator to work.
A half hour later, I noticed that my keys weren’t in my pocket. My first thought was that I had stuffed them in my coat pocket or in my knapsack. I’m notoriously absent-minded, so I do things like that. No luck. So I searched all the pockets of my knapsack. Still no luck. Uh oh.
I tried to visualize the scenario. I’d have to go home right away – my building’s rental office closes before 5 today. I’d have to go to the rental agents, get them to let me into the building, then somehow get new keys for everything. I don’t know whether this would mean that a locksmith would have to come and put new locks on my apartment door or what. Plus there’s my safety deposit box key, my locker key, and so on and so on. And, because I’m a contractor being paid by the hour, I’d lose billable time doing this, which would cost me money. This wasn’t looking good at all.
Before telling my boss that I would have to leave, I headed down to the lobby to ask the guy at the front desk whether, by chance, somebody had turned in a set of keys. I fully expected him to not know what the hell I was talking about. But, miracle of miracles, someone had spotted my keys on the chair, and had turned them in to the front desk. It was an enormous relief to find my keys again.
To whoever turned the keys in to the front desk: you don’t know me, and I don’t know you. But, whoever you are: I hope that good things are happening to you right now.
A little mini music review while I’m here: today, I listened to the Dandy Warhols’ Thirteen Tales of Urban Bohemia. I find the Dandys fascinating because they seem to be two or three different bands on this album. I think “Sleep” is a really great song because it’s kind of atmospheric and melancholy, which you already know that I like. And “Bohemian Like You” is a catchy little single. But those two songs sound totally different. The allmusic.com site is down right now, or I’d check to see whether they had more than one songwriter in the band.
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