The What Ifs

One of the most annoying types of headaches to get,
Are the ones that come from 'what if' stressors.

You see, I have a pretty good imagination.
And when an event happens where I can't say for sure that the outcome is going to be good.
I end up worrying/stressing about it in the backburner of my mind.
Which in turn tends to tense up my muscles.
And therefore gives me a headache.

All because I don't know...what's going to happen next.
The stress of the unknown is the worst.
Because there is no easy way, unless one can find the answer quickly, to get rid of the 'what if' stress.

And today....
I had that happen just before I had to leave for work.
Where my roomies found a random bike in our yard -behind our gate and such.

I had seen the bike yesterday, outside of our gate, along the boundary between our place and the neighbor's. And so had assumed that the bike was someone's who belonged there.

But for whatever reason, this person had decided to go through the extra effort and open up our gate and stick the bike inside, leaning it against the neighbor's house.
Why he thought that was a good idea is beyond me. Because it was obviously not the neighbor's property because there was a gate there....
*shakes head*

In any case, after receiving no response from the neighbors.
My roomies decided to take the bike and lock it in our garage.

Which I thought was a bit....extreme.

Honestly, I would have just placed the bike back in the neighbor's driveway.
And maybe would have added in a note saying "Hey, don't place things on our property okay?"
Just to basically give them a warning.

Instead...the roomies locked it in our garage. Out of sight.
And I could only imagine how the owner of said bike would react when he'd go to get it....and not find it where he left it.
Nor could I imagine the conversation that would result in regards to the bike ending up well....

Soo....
That's when I started stressing.
Because I was worried.
Worried for my roomies,
worried for our relation with our neighbors.
Worried for the owner of the bike.

And I was constantly trying to come up with scenarios that would make the eventual confrontation go smoothly.

-Thankfully from what I heard from the roomies, it went well. They ended up returning to the neighbor. Discovered the bike belonged to a friend of his. and said friend had been rightfully frantic about his bike being missing. And probably took it to heart when my roomies said: "Don't put your bike on our property."

Still.
It didn't stop me from getting tensed up.
*exhales*
Add onto that 8 hours of customer service at work today.
and stress over being able to buy new fish or not....

It's no surprise really that I ended up with a headache. Y_Y