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| A Bike. Not broke obviously |
It
is another warm summers evening, humidity is
high and I have parked my cab by the beach, my eyes are half closed and a waft
of charcoal smoke from a nearby barbecue combined with the dappling of shadow
and light from the gently swaying trees are having a sleepy hypnotic effect on
me.
Whilst
in the cab with my windows down, relaxing and enjoying this sensory massage,
there appearing in my sleepy gaze is the torso of a man, silhouetted against
the low sun walking toward me as if in slow motion. He is carrying upon his
large shoulders a mountain bike.
‘Can
you get this in?’ he breathlessly asked. I snap into action quickly and I am
out of the cab surveying all that was before me. I agreed to carry him and his
large swinging package that he has now placed in my hands. ‘You sit in the cab
and leave this to me’ he did not hear me as he was already reclining in the
front seat; his long tousled dripping hair was draped over the back of my seat.
Extreme exertion had beaten him.
Put
the back seats down quickly, so I can lay this large load down was my objective
now. He lazily half-asked me if I needed assistance getting it in the rear. I declined;
I wanted the challenge of getting it in myself. I spend too long fiddling with
small knobs that seemed to do nothing, and in one almighty push, the back seats
went down. I stumbled and slipped behind him; he turned, looked down and gazed
at me. He turned back and shut his eyes with a slight satisfied smile, perhaps
knowing I was in control.
With
the back open wide, my next objective was to get this huge thing in the rear.
It will be tight, so tight.
I
slid it in and it just flopped about. His seat was too high and proud, so I
slapped his leathered saddle hard a few times and it eventually complied. Next
was the front half, which was at an awkward angle, it meant I had to put my arm
around and give it a good yank a few times, it succumbed to my powerful grip
and in no time the front half was pointing toward me.
I
slammed and rammed it in hard at least a dozen times before it went fully in.
He stirred in the front as my suspension jumped up and jiggled. I gently told
him not to worry as I finally squeezed it in behind him.
I
climbed in the front and sat next to him, he looked exhausted and I too was breathless,
my heart pounding more than usual. We finally set off towards a sun set low in
the sky and thirty minutes later, we arrived.
We
both got out and I pulled his bike from out of the rear, it came out easier
than it went in and I handed it to him. I climbed in to pull the back seats
up. ‘It’s bent!’ he said as he was gesturing behind me whilst I was still on all fours. ‘And
broke’ he continued; ‘My saddle, it’s torn too!’ As I climbed out, I reversed into
him. He stumbled back. ‘This cost me two grand!’ he exclaimed again and again
whimpering almost, he now even had that dribbly slack jawed look about him. The
bike DID look a bit bent, broke in fact.
He
got increasingly angry and redder; I told him it did not help that he just sat
in the front and left me to get on with it. I REALLY do think short tubby fair weather
bicyclists with limp greasy long sweaty hair should buy a cheap bike to learn and get
fit on instead of being a big Mr Flash Bollox, and go out and buy an expensive
carbon and aluminium lightweight fragile one.
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| I couldn't find a pic of a big bloke on a bike |
I
gave him my insurance details and I left him and his broke mountain bike. In my mirror, I could see his yellow sweat
stained Lycra top had now slipped over his rotund beer belly. His face was
redder than the setting sun. I was fifteen quid better off and my insurance
company was £2,500 worst off (new for old) the wanker didn’t tip me though AND
he got a new bike out of it. Bastard.
NB:
By the by, only the white carbon composite (apparently, yawn…) bicycle was bent
in this article if you catch me drift and no other males sexuality was harmed
during the process of writing this bollox except mine. Yes, in fact you can say
I, er…took one for the lads.
