| Re: Make your neighbor cry and hug you: fix their bike!
landotter wrote:
> 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...
Park Tool FR-2, nicer than the Suntour original.
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