u/all_taboos_are_off

I recently started a new job working a swing shift, so beautiful perfect riding weather before work, but getting off at midnight. I usually never ride at night if I can avoid it because my eyes don't work well in the dark due to having LASIK ten years ago; reduced ability to see at night is a common side effect of the surgery. I'm not here to complain about that, because I would do it again in a heartbeat as that surgery was one of the best decisions of my life. Even normal eyes have ~85% reduction in function at night, so it just seems like a no-brainer not to ride at night if it can be avoided. However, if I didn't ride to work, I wouldn't get to ride much at all now, so I guess I'm riding at night. But I digress.

I am working security and needed a jacket for patrols after the sun goes down. I looked in the back room and found a pile of old jackets, some were black with fluorescent gray strips and others were this horrible highlighter yellow. Naturally, I yanked one of the yellow ones because I'm not out here trying to sneak up on anyone since I am a tiny woman. I got hired because I am a woman and they needed women in the security office at this facility to help with the female students. Whatever, I actually really like the job.

Anyway, after work one night, I wanted to take this jacket home to wash it, so I wore it over my gear. Lemme tell ya, it does the trick! I feel a lot better about riding at night when I'm wearing it. It is my personal responsibility to make sure I'm safe on the road, but being a literal beacon of obnoxious yellow and silver doesn't hurt one bit. Cars are giving me a TON of space when I wear this jacket over my gear, even during the day. My bike doesn't have storage, so stowing the jacket doesn't work, I have to wear it or it doesn't come with me.

Even though it isn't technically motorcycle gear, it is literally just a windbreaker, I think this is the best "gear" I've added to my rotation in a minute. I always thought those guys who wore the fluorescent vests and jackets were a bit doofy, but now I get it. It might look doofy, but boy howdy, it makes me as visible as the sun! Highly recommend.

A few months ago I made a post about how my wallet had been lost. I likely left it on top of my car while I was getting gas one night. I made the post hoping someone might have picked it up somewhere, or just to have more people looking out for a lost wallet in general. It was a desperate post for sure.

Well, the wallet was recovered!

I lost my wallet four days before flying out for a birthday trip, so I only had my big passport to use as my ID the whole trip and I had to expedite a new debit and credit card so I would be able to pay for stuff on my trip. It was so annoying, and I couldn't do some of the stuff I'd planned on doing, i.e. renting a motorcycle, because I didn't have my driver's license for my trip. I decided not to panic about it, and just take it one step at a time when I returned from my trip. I would have needed to start the process to acquire a new passport card, new SSC (because I had it in my wallet for a work thing, I do not normally carry it in my wallet), a new driver's license, and some other document cards, but basically my mission was going to be a long and terrible one.

The Thursday after I returned from my trip, I get a call from the Carson City district attorney's office. "This is going to sound a bit strange..." no actually, I had been hoping for a call like this. "But your documents were recovered by Carson City NHP from a drunk man who was wandering around the highway in North Carson."

It turns out, some down-on-his-luck gentleman scooped up my wallet from the side of the highway, spent the money inside on alcohol, and then wandered around the highway until his was picked up by an observant NHP officer. The guy was using my wallet as his own, and when he pulled his ID out of the wallet, the officer saw MY driver's license underneath his and proceeded to confiscate the wallet.

I was able to meet with the DA the next morning to give a statement, as they had the guy in custody and he was in court that morning. Though they couldn't just give me my wallet because it was evidence of a crime, apparently possessing someone else's documents without turning them in immediately is considered a crime. But the DA was super awesome and was able to get NHP to release my wallet quickly and I was able to pick it up at the Reno NHP office, where they send evidence and also where I live, that next Wednesday.

The wallet itself is trashed beyond use, so I think it flew off my car as I was getting on the freeway on North Carson street, though really it could have fallen off anywhere along my route. It looked like it had been run over a couple times, and my DL and passport card were bent in one corner, but still usable. The guy who found it likely found it the day he was caught, so almost 2 weeks after I lost it. The detective could not get a straight answer from him as he seemed pretty incoherent even after sobering up, though he did say he knew me from like 7 years ago, and I was like, I've never met this person in my life. I really hope this guy was able to get helped out because it sounds like he was having a mental health crisis on top of an alcohol problem.

All in all, I am just thankful to the observant NHP officer who saw my ID in my own wallet and the Carson City DA for getting my wallet released from evidence so quickly. The DA said "This never happens. When you lose a wallet it usually never gets found. Go buy a lottery ticket."

I am having some really extreme lower back pain that has been worsening over the last few weeks. Last night it got so bad I had to leave work early, which sucks because I'm just starting this job. My benefits have not kicked in yet, so I don't have insurance and I can't afford any medical bills right now.

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Obviously I am pretty desperate if I'm turning to Reddit, but does anyone have any suggestions on where i can go in the meantime to get my back looked at? I would normally go to the ROC express as I've had a lot of success with that in the past, but I also had insurance those times.

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Any advice would be appreciated. I am literally crying I'm in so much pain, and I have work tonight and tomorrow night.