Yesterday, 5:20 PM, I got off my train, walked to my bike locker, put my hand in my pocket, and found that I did not have my keys. After emptying my pockets and messenger bag and searching everything, and not finding my keys, I called my wife for a ride. Then I called Citibike to report my citibike key lost. The customer service guy killed my key and made a note of my predicament. I then entered the lost key chain on the NJ Transit lost and found website....

A few hours later, Citibike called me; the same customer service guy. He had a NYC bike messenger on the line who had my keys; found them on the street.

I got a ride to the station in the morning, met the kid, got my keys, forced him to take $40 as a token of thanks (really nice kid, insisted he didn't want the money. But I was more stubborn than he, he took it eventually).

My keys were pretty smashed. Couldn't get into my office; that key was completely broken. I had to go to the main office and get the card with the codes, take that to a locksmith, and have a new key made. Didn't get to my office until almost noon.

All in all, things could have been worse. Still, what a fiasco!