A week or two ago, I lost my Topeak bike tool on the lake front path, it fell out of my messenger bag when I left the zipper open on the pocket it was in. I actually *heard* it fall to the pavement, but it didn't even register with me that something fell out of my bag, until the next day. So I bought another bike tool.

Fast forward to today, I went to TJ's this morning for coffee and other breakfast essentials, and my bag was so full of stuff that I just put my u-lock in my back pocket on the way home, which is usually not a problem. Well, my lock fell out of my pocket on Diversey, just west of Southport. I felt it fall out, of course, so I stopped and looked for it. Should be easy to locate, right? I could not find it at all! I kept looking under parked cars, in the middle of the street, everywhere, it's like it just disappeared. Damn.