What has the world come too...

Ok, so this blog is just a rant and rave...so you can stop reading now if you don't want to hear it. I would consider myself a somewhat cynical person to begin with. I try and be all butterflies and roses, but that's just not me. So I already had a poor view of society before the following incident....
On Wed. I went for a run with Keely. We all know how much I just LOVE running to begin with, and I am not entirely convinced it isn't actually bad for my well being ;-) Anyways, we did about a 3 mile stretch that included going over some railroad tracks...which is very bumpy in a jogging stroller. So it was no surprise to me that when I got home, I couldn't find my cell phone and came to the conclusion that it must have fallen out of my stroller...see what I am saying about running being bad for me ;-) So I emailed Brian to call my cell phone in hopes that someone had found it. Well someone did...however that person was drunk or high and was not making sense. Brian tried to offer him something so I could get my phone back, but he kept insisting that it was his phone, and Brian had the wrong number. SO we cancelled the phone and went to the wonderful AT&T store to find out the cheapest replacement phone was $160!!!!!! So we bought a $15 cheap phone from Target, got a new Sim card and I was connected to the outside world once again. The next day I started the task of entering in all of my contacts back into my fabulous new phone. When I was to T, Brian's phone rang and it was a man who said that5 is brother had found a cell phone and wanted $10 to give it back to me.
Now lets think about this....he found MY phone, and wants ME to pay HIM to get MY phone back! Unfortunately all of my contacts and pics are worth this, so we agreed to meet him in front of his sleazy motel for the exchange. Being that it was 9am, I was a little surprised that when I was within 5 feet of the guy I could smell all of the alcohol on him! HE claimed that I was LUCKY that he found it and it didn't get run over by the train...I personally thought the train sounded better at this point! Then he proceeded the transaction like a drug deal..."give me the money and I'll give you the phone..." After getting the phone I added that "it was GREAT doing business with you!" And after sanitizing the phone, I am happy to have my old phone back, and now I have a back up phone just in case! But I now feel justified to be as cynical of society as I want to...at least through the weekend, until I go back to church on Sunday and regain some happy thoughts :-)