"Chris-is" Avoided.... Hopefully!

These things always happen to me..... Its Tuesday November 18th at 9:35AM and I am at work. Its a busy time for me as you can imagine being a stock trader so I ignored a call from an unknown number on my cell phone. I got worried so I checked my messages.... turns out it was this great woman named Janet who worked at UPS in Tempe, AZ. She had found my bicycle and opened the case to look for my information because it had no address, or shipping label on it! I had packed the bike myself and it was shipped out UPS by my shop last week. When packing it I put the shipping address on the outside of the case in 2 places with duct tape, and as a precaution put my personal info on the bike's top tube. Luckily this wonderful woman called my cell number to tell me she had my bike and no idea what to do with it! I had the tracking number, but she had no shipping address attached to it. How did my bike even make it to Tempe, Arizona? After giving her the address she said it would go out no problem; Ok so maybe she didn't go to the lengths that Tom Hanks did in Castaway to get my package delivered, but it means an awful lot to me!!!! That would have been a real problem showing up Thursday ready to pick up my bike at Inside Out Sports and hearing it never arrived! This is supposed to be an easy, non-stressful week for me! There is nothing like shipping a bike only to have it stolen, and paying $125 for the honor of delivering it to a thief! I should know I had a new Cannondale Scalpel team issue bike with full XTR stolen a few years back from DHL in Kansas City, MO; I wonder why they are out of the US now? Needless to say I am very lucky I had a cyclist named Janet in Tempe looking out for me!
I will be posting daily from IM Arizona starting Thursday; hopefully I will only have good posts from now on! By the way, ALWAYS put your name on your bike; it might just fall into the hands of someone who will do the right thing someday!