| Re: Make your neighbor cry and hug you: fix their bike!
Tom Keats wrote:
> In article <1169083145.286172.129480@11g2000cwr.googlegroups. com>,
> "landotter" <landotter@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Tom Keats wrote:
> >> In article <1168999797.090731.77200@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
> >> "landotter" <landotter@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > All for a hundred dollar bill. Now I have another neighbor that'll
> >> > leave the cage at home for the basics, as our local market, hardware
> >> > store, and dining/drinking establishments are all within a couple
> >> > miles.
> >>
> >> You realize, of course, you are the bike's
> >> personal caregiver/veterinarian from now on --
> >>
> >> unless you're willing to lend tools ;-)
> >>
> >
> > Yup, that's always the case isn't it? :-P I don't mind, as it all evens
> > out in the end. Those folks provided me with garden tomatoes, chilis,
> > and herbs all summer--so I'm not complaining. :-D
>
> Yeah, neighbourliness is great.
>
> Even though sometimes it results in being given
> more zucchinis than ya know what to do with.
>
> Tell ya what, though -- sometimes it doesn't pay
> to let too many people know you've got a floor pump.
>
> It's okay if they bring their bike over for you
> to air-up their tires. But sometimes they wanna
> borrow your pump and take it away with them for
> awhile. Then you've gotta go through the distress
> of delineating &putting your foot down about what
> you'll lend, and not lend.
>
My pump does not leave the premises. I went for near twenty years
without getting a proper floor pump of my own, and it's going nowhere.
I do not miss the beforetime when I thought all a man needed was an hpx
and a thumb.
I lent my Yakima rack to the next door neighbor. He went and got
himself drowned in the Gulf of Mexico the next weekend. Never got my
rack back. That'll learn me. Damn you, Nate!
> Never lend a chain tool. Especially if it's
> a beautiful ol' Rivoli with the straightest
> pin ever lathe-turned.
I've got two, just in case!
I don't lend bike tools, ever. You want something fixed? I'd rather do
it than lend out my tools. My electric hedger is another deal, borrow
it for a week, have fun.
>
> It's okay to lend (what's left of) a Suntour 2-prong
> freewheel remover, if you've already used it, yourself.
>
I could use one of those actually...
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