The Missing Holy Book

Okay, I went to NYC a few weeks ago for a school related conference. I spent one night at a fabulous Marriot in Times Square. I could see the Lion King sign from my window. The other nights I bunked with a classmate from the Home by the Sea, Keisha. I have seen this girl maybe 2 times since we graduated 7 years ago. Still she offered to put me up. And a great host she was. We were going to the same conference and we are both working on our doctorates in Education. Anyway, back to the point of this post.

I brought my little mini Quran with me. This is the one I usually read, not the big I've had since I was 8 because that one has tissue paper thin pages that I'm scared I'll rip.

I knew I had it while I was there, even though I didn't actually pull it out to read.

Well when I got home and unpacked I couldn't find it. ANYWHERE! I went through all my luggage.

So I figured that TSA had gone through my luggage (I had checked both bags) and decided to toss my Quran in some type of protest against Islamic terrorists. Yes, I had concocted this whole conspiracy theory about why my Quran was missing.

I had myself all worked up over this, envisioning them flipping through my Quran and tossing it in the trash. I knew I hadn't left it in NYC because Keisha would have called me.

I even started calling friends and they egged me on telling me yeah that's what probably happened, Nikki even said she was missing a tennis bracelet she thinks was stolen from her luggage.

So I'm talking to her mom telling her how its missing and how I know they stole it to spite me as a Muslim blah blah blah and she says: "You had a little Quran?"
Me: yeah! The little one I like to read.
Ma: It had a wooden bookmark in it.
Me: yeah! you seen me with it
Ma: It's here on the shelf, I'm looking at it now

Sorry, TSA for accusing you of stealing it. See I flew in to Charlotte from New York and hung out there before heading back to SC. And the family never really bother to tell me when I've left something unless I ask (or accuse TSA of stealing it.)