Ooh la la. Before I begin today’s story though, I have to tell you that I just saw someone using a shop-vac on a cow, who was clearly enjoying itself. God bless small-town county fairs. Kay. Back to the mist. And the romance. And stuff like that. Last night, I was standing on a retaining wall. (That is like, the most romantic place to be standing, like, ever, like, you know?) But actually, the location didn’t matter so much, because I was looking out over a misty river, flowing like glass under the moon and the street lights and the nearby bridge, silver and black and partly hidden under its moonlit scarf of opaque humidity. I may have been grinning like a total moron as I surveyed the scene, because I react in strange ways to beauty. I was also trying to see out of the back of my head to keep an eye on my bike, which was placed in an absolutely perfect position to be stolen by the shadowy young man who was walking across the bridge toward me. As he came closer, I was t