11/11: fixing a bike in the dark
OK OK, so I was lying. I didn't fix it in the dark. First of all, I took the wheel inside once I had removed it from the rest of the bike, and secondly, it's still not fixed!
Well, it all started with me visiting a friend a few days back, who was so kind to give me his old mobile. See, I had not planned for another mobile and budgeting is a rather tight matter these days.
On my way back to the inner city, one of my bicycle tires went flat - luckily not before I was within crawling distance of my student house. However, also time is budgetted tightly right now, so I had to leave the bike there - locked, but unusable, and instead walk to the university every day. Now you might think that the 30/40 minutes walk each direction easily should match the amount of time spend on fixing the tire - but what you're forgetting is that every day was planned from morning to evening, and there was no hole of a few hours that I could spend buying another tube, replacing the old one, and getting air from somewhere.
Well, it all started with me visiting a friend a few days back, who was so kind to give me his old mobile. See, I had not planned for another mobile and budgeting is a rather tight matter these days.
On my way back to the inner city, one of my bicycle tires went flat - luckily not before I was within crawling distance of my student house. However, also time is budgetted tightly right now, so I had to leave the bike there - locked, but unusable, and instead walk to the university every day. Now you might think that the 30/40 minutes walk each direction easily should match the amount of time spend on fixing the tire - but what you're forgetting is that every day was planned from morning to evening, and there was no hole of a few hours that I could spend buying another tube, replacing the old one, and getting air from somewhere.
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