FIDES, the bike in Bicycle Thieves

The story is simple. An unemployed man in post-war Italy is lucky enough to get an offer of work but he needs a bicycle. He has one but it sits in a pawn hall because he and his family needed the money. He is desperate and has not idea of how to get around the problem. His wife though is not taken aback. She comes up with a plan...to pawn off the sheets off of their beds and with that money pay off the debt on the bike. Plain enough...this scene is merely a recounting of that brief episode. Not the most important in the film. However, since De Sica loves to set things spinning by attaching events to a small insignificant object by making it the center of a conflict, the bike's insignificance is paramount...as is that of the sheets...in fact both are very important...what I love in this scene is how two insignificant objects cross paths and are found in a container that holds an apparently infinite number of similarly insignificant objects...
by the way...the make of the bike is Fides...a faithful piece of insignificance!?