Editing Blog/2025-04-15/Catching A Laptop Thief (section)

== Epilogue ==

An unusually coincidental thing about this whole thing is we apprehended the thief at 667 Mission St. This was the address of the first place in San Francisco that I worked at. It is the place where I went up the elevator and received the keys and security code from the woman who I would marry ten years later. In 2013, I went there for the first time, and here I was a month short of 12 years later!
[[File:Roshan on a Lyft bike standing by Yerba Buena Public Square.webp|thumb|A charmingly light-hearted experience to end the day]]

Later that day, when I'd finished at work I was biking back home when I stopped on the walkway by Yerba Buena Plaza to wait for an old lady to finish using the ramp so that I could wheel the Lyft bike down<ref name=lyftramp/>. When she reached the top of the ramp, she saw me standing there and exclaimed delightedly. It was a lovely pink sunset that evening, and I was standing by the flowers planted there against the brightly painted walls of the square. She found this whole thing wonderful and said "Oh, it's such a pity. You can't see all of this, of course. The flowers and your brightly coloured jacket. Do you have a phone? Can I take a photo of you to show you? I promise I won't run away. You're the first person who I've asked for a phone".

There is no way she could have outrun me, but nonetheless I'm a fairly naïve person<ref name=naivete/> and so I was happy to give her the phone with which she took the photograph. She asked me not to pose or anything and to just be natural but I'm damned if I could have done that on demand and so hopped onto the bike.

A pleasant cap to the eventful day!