Stephen In Japan

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November 23, 2006

Stolen Bike #2

My last post was about my nice bike getting stolen. At the end, I said that I got a nice new bike and that I was paranoid that it was going to get stolen.

Well, it did.

It took me a while to recover from the first theft, to get used to borrowing other people's bikes, to file the police report, to do the research to find another bike, to find a good bike shop, and to wait for the new bike to come in. Now I'm back at square one again.

You know how when your work gets destroyed or erased on purpose, so you start over and get it almost back to how it was before, and then someone destroys it or erases it again, so it makes you not want to try again and just makes you frustrated that there's nothing you can do to stop it from happening again? Yeah, it's like that.

(and, whereas I'm not sure whether I locked my first bike, I AM sure I locked it this time. There are pro bike theives here).


2 Comments:

At November 24, 2006 12:08 AM, Blogger Stephen said...

By the way, now one of my students has been nice enough to lend me his unused bike. In Japan, this kind of bicycle is called a "Mamachali", which means something like a "Granny-style chingaling bicycle".

 
At November 28, 2006 4:43 AM, Blogger Andrew said...

If you ever start another band, you should definately call it "Granny-style chingaling bicycle." or maybe its Khayng equivalent.

 

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