Habeas Corpus

This past week, my beloved Blue Jays were visiting Petco Park.. and I decided I would attend all the games.. after all, they were visiting for the first time in 6 years, and I hadn't caught one of their games all year.

On Monday, I found myself at the ballpark, indulging in a Petco Dog and another overpriced beer.. sipping on which made me David Moulton.. "why do they serve American beer cold?... so you can tell the difference from urine"!!

Had a blast, bumped into quite a few Blue Jays fan, transplanted from all across Canada.. and decided to make the trip all over again the next day.

So its Tuesday, and 4 of us got kickass seats right behind 3rd base..... pre-gamed at the pub right by the park, where among others, I met my first Indian from Niagara Falls (a tribe whose name I won't massacre by attempting to spell) as well as one of the radio play-by-play guys.. Then we proceed to our seats and start heckling the crap out of the Blue Jays....

At one point, a padre fan sitting next to us turned around and goes "You sure you guys are Toronto fans?"... and the heckling continued... and the Toronto 3rd base coach was actually enjoying, giving us the Thumbs up and later the peace sign.. SCORE!!

So I looks to the 'security guy' and goes "Hey man, how many warnings do we get hahhaa".. i don't why I thought that was a funny question, cuz the next thing you know, he's on his radio, and another suit comes up to us and says.. "Gentleman, follow me".. We all look at each other, is he serious?.. It was the 2nd inning.. SECOND inning..

while we're talking to the security guy, a grand slam is hitting against the good guys, and we walk out...We didn't even get a warning, we protested.. sorry guys.. its the rule of the law. you gotta bounce... ...Another security guy looks at us and goes"Trust me, I'm from boston, this would never happen there"... I never thought I would have a RedSox fan empathize with me as I rocked my Maple Leafs jersey!!

So we got run from Petco Park in the 2nd inning.. no warnings.. no explanations... Hey Obama, what happened to Habeas Corpus.. (lawyers, feel free to roll your eyes at my blogger's licensed use of that writ!!).

So we bounce to the rooftop bar right next door, where we have a view of the game, and other beverages on tap....The night's been redeemed.. we suddenly a few other sympathizers chuckling away at our predicament, as we celebrated the creaming of my team from about a 1000 ft away (and about 300 feet in the air!).....

A few hours later, I find myself without my phone.. my trustee phone, seperated from me? what would I do? Its my best phone yet, but fat chance of ever getting that back.. it'd be on Ebay, before I could type out ebay.com!

The next day, I go and buy me a replacement phone, as I rue the loss of not just my previous device, but all the cherished pictures I had on it.. oh well.. at least it was a fun night and I had a story :)

4 days later I get a phone call.. "Hi, Its Frank. I'm the lost&found guy, and a housekeeper turned in your phone. .." ecstatic, i said, I'll be right over and then I asked "wait, my phone was disconnected, and the battery had died, how'd you contact me?".

"Oh, I charged it up myself.. i figured it was an expensive phone, you'd be looking for it. then i searched for home number, and found an entry under "Dad".. so i called up your father (in Canada, btw), and asked for your number and hence this".

My faith in humanity had been restored. 2 people had gone to great lengths to ensure that I was reunited with my device... Neither of them needed to do any of that, they weren't obligated at all.

But they did... and I was glad...
Pay it forward they say. I'm sure Lost&Found guy and that housekeeper will have tonnes of good karma coming their way.

and I now need to figure out what to do with the 2 new phones I bought myself earlier this week!

still, a good problem to have! Hang in there world, there's hope for us yet :)

The Canuck Engineer