Motorcycle


Roxanne

      On the highway there』s a motorcyclist on his way home.  」It』s midnight now,」 he thought a bit regretfully, 「I should have gone home earlier.」  While he was thinking, he rode faster and faster.  Suddenly, his motorcycle engine died.  He tried to re-start the engine but in vain.  He looked around but there were no one nor any shops around.  Again and again, he tried to start the engine; finally it seemed that it would work again.    The man got on his bike and was ready to start it.  However, the key was gone!  He searched everywhere, including his every pocket and every inch of the ground, but there was no sign of the key.  「How unfortunately I am!」  He pushed his motorcycle onto the highway, hoping that there might be someone to help him.  He waited for a long time and finally one guy stopped to help him take the bike home.

     Arriving home, the man told his wife about what had happened on his way home.  Since the key is nowhere to be found, he asked his wife to find the spare key.  Curiously, the spare key was also missing.  「Maybe we both are too forgetful,」 they said to each other, 」maybe we should ask a locksmith to make a new key for the motorcycle.」  The next day when the wife went downstairs to find a locksmith, she passed by the bike and surprisingly found that the key was in the bike』s keyhole.  In the meantime, she found the spare one was right there in her pocket!  「It』s too weird!  There must be something strange!」

     Unable to find a reasonable explanation, the wife went back to the used motorcycle shop where her husband had bought the bike.  At the request of the wife, the shop owner finally told the story behind the motorcycle.  The bike had been restored there a few years before after the previous owner was killed in a car accident.  He was riding with his friend on the back seat, but the friend jokingly pulled out the key while they were still riding on the bike.  The bike went into a spin at high speed and killed both of them.  Instead of believing the story, the wife just laughed and left.  「People today are all mad,」 she said to her husband.  Neither of them believed in anything that the eyes could not see.  They still rode that motorcycle as usual until they had money to buy a car.  Through that period nothing happened again.  And then one day, they wanted to go out to a party.  They decided to ride the motorcycle because of parking problems.  However, they never arrived at the party and they never came home.

This motorcycle had already been restored quite a few times; and every time the reason was because strange things were happening.  One owner asked help from a psychic, and the psychic said that the original owner died too young and he was filled with frustration.  Therefore, his spirit lingered around the bike, always wanting other people to suffer the same fate as he did. 

     No one knows if the husband and the wife are still living or not.  But one thing can be sure:  the motorcycle still exists somewhere in the world.

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