oops...

I unwittingly deprived one of my neighbors of her daily newspaper today. Duksim usually wakes up and leaves for work before I do...in fact, she wakes me up before she steps out the door. We have the Chicago Tribune delivered to us every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday (strange pattern, I know, but that's the delivery pattern we have). Because we live in a condo, the delivery person leaves the paper in the front lobby area. Usually Duksim takes the morning paper with her, since she reads it on the train to work. She usually brings it back home so I can read it in the evening (even though by then, the news is already a day old - oh well).

For the longest time, I was led to believe our paper was the only morning paper delivery to our condo complex, so I usually don't see any paper laying around as I leave for work. This morning as I left for work, I saw the Tribune still in the lobby. Thinking Duksim was running late and forgot to pick up the paper, I took it with me and left it in my car. The reason I do this is because we had a few times in the past where our paper wasn't delivered. Either the paper delivery person got lazy, or someone swiped it. So that was my reasoning for grabbing the paper this morning.

Well, when I got home and came in through the front door, what did I see - but today's Tribune on the living room table! I was still holding the paper I grabbed this morning in my hand (still in it's original plastic bag). I think the look on my face was priceless as I came to realize the situation. I was thinking about just accepting the fact that we have two papers today. Later on, I found that Duksim took the paper and "delivered" it to the lady upstairs (who I later found also has a Tribune subscription). But because she is a teacher, she does not get up as early now that school's out - which explains the paper in the lobby. When I mean "delivered", Duksim just left it in front of her door. She usually calls me if she forgets grabbing the paper...she didn't call this morning, and I didn't make that connection when I grabbed our neighbor's paper. Gotta love living in multi-family units...