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Finally tracked down a pair of all-black classic Vans slip-ons!

makin’ chip dip

Finally! The fire alarm is off.

Oooh, chilly in my apartment.

Just ate the best brownie EVER at the Whip.

I am hungry for gummi candies

SO MAD!

ARGHHHHH. Last week I put my bike up for sale for $100 on craigslist. My bike is this little red road bike, and I’ve owned it for two years. I bought it used off another guy on craigslist, and when I got it from him, it was in pretty bad shape. It had broken spokes, broken brakes, rusty gears and handlebars, and the rims were warped. But I got it for only $70, and it was the perfect size for me, so was I really going to complain?

I did not. I spent the next year working on it. I got the rims trued, brakes fixed, gears and chain refurbished, and rewrapped the handlebars. I bought new bike lights and reflectors for it. I spent nearly $150 to get it back in working order. By the time it was finished, all it needed were some new tires and lots of streets to ride on.

Then, last year I moved from Burnaby to Kitsilano. Suddenly I didn’t need to bike into town to go to school or work anymore. Everything here is in walking distance, and I still go to school so I get a UPass for transit. My bike spent the next six months sitting on my balcony.

So, I put up an ad for it on craigslist. I set the price at $100 because it still needed some work; new tires, a good scrub, oil in the gears and chain, and a brake tune-up. I wanted someone to buy it, and not be resentful of the additional dollars and hours they would have to spend making the bike functional again. I also specifically mentioned in the ad that it needed new tires and some care.

Last night a guy bought it from me. He was really excited because he, like me, is short and has a hard time finding an affordable bike that’s also the right size. I told him again that he needed to get new tires for it, and he said that was no problem. I told him that the brakes needed a tune-up, and he said that would be fine. He paid me $100 in cash and left.

This guy just called me. He says he wants me to take the bike back and refund him his money, because he doesn’t want to spend the time, energy or extra cash to fix up the bike. He says he called every bike shop in town and none of them carry the size tire the bike needs, which, frankly, isn’t my responsibility. How am I to blame for the unavailability of tires? He admits that he was aware of how much work he would need to put into the bike, but is now unwilling to commit to that work. He has barely owned the bike for 24 hours.

I am so mad! He guilted me into taking it back; I’ll just post the ad again, there were a couple other people who were interested in buying it. What I’m mad about is that there is nothing wrong with the bike that he didn’t already know about, and yet he is insisting that I refund him and take the bike back because he doesn’t want to spend more than one evening looking for bike tires - ones that he knew would be difficult to track down due to their unusually small size.

And who on earth would purchase something used from craigslist and then demand the seller to do a refund?!

OH MY GOD. Hamlet 2 is HILARIOUS

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