i bought this magnificent bike on facebook marketplace for $55.55. I’d been wanting one for a while, shooting
forgettable ‘is this available’’s to every few bike postings I’d see.
This bike spoke to me because she has a story. She’d been sitting in the storage unit of the woman selling it for 10 years.
here’s the catch: the woman selling it never actually used the bike. the actual owner of the bike was a friend of the seller, who’d bought the bike with the intention of sobriety , hoping the bike would ease off her smoking problem. she’d only just started using the bike when she got transferred to work in Hawaii, leaving the bike behind.
so, the years went by. while people freeze-danced to Black Beetles by Rae Sremmurd, underwent a global pandemic, badly lipsynced to Despacito, elected an orange president not once but twice, and entered a brat-loving recession…
the bike kept waiting.
for me!!!
🥹
she’s rusty and has flat tires, but her gears are in great shape! nothing can stop us from joyriding the west coast this summer. She’s so worth the after-work/employment search hours I spend on my slice of a balcony :) I’m going to show her (and myself) that good things are worth the wait 💖
Patience, persistence & WD40 is all it takes :)
