Story time

Yesterday evening in the late afternoon, I decided to ride to a park where I wanted to make watercolor painting. I parked my bike at the entrance and sat on a bench, where I began to paint.

The bike was out of sight, but I was confident it was still there because I locked it... I was so wrong ! Once I wanted to go home, my bike was gone.

On the way home I texted my boyfriend about it. He decided to search quickly on a well known resale website. Luckily, the thief was an idiot and published an offer on this site an hour later, with the photos of the bike and his phone number. I immediately recognized my bike because of the rear light which is also a turn signal, and because of the front break defect.

It was late, so we decided to wait this morning to go at the police station and complain with all what we found. They took the complain, made me sign a bunch of paper, but said that there was very few chances to see my bike again...
So my boyfriend decided to call the thief and say that he was interested by the offer. The guy agreed to see him in the afternoon.

We get back to the police station where the agents said they would come with us, but cancelled at the last minute. So SO and I went to the meeting place by ourselves. I hid a little farther away because I was afraid to be recognized.

After a few minutes, the thief arrived and asked to SO if he wanted to try the bike, which he agreed. Once SO was on it, he said "now I can take it back to its owner" , and flew away. I didn't heard what he said, but I could see the scene where I was and it was hilarious. The guy was stunned and didn't even react.

Long story short, I am very lucky and happy to get my bike back and to have a such marvellous boyfriend. I can't thank him enough for that. I really wanted to share this story with you.

Also sorry for my bad English.