It doesn't seem to be the best month to me. A number of small incidents occurred. Not as deadly as losing my beloved laptop (tears), but annoying enough.
My bicycle was not behaving to its best in this month, first of all, the fender in the back had broken into 2 pieces (I have really no foggist how this could happen), the bike is still rideable, but I had to be careful not to push my bike backward when getting out of the parking space and the noise is really irritating.
One night, I was on my way happily biking to the best steak house in the city to meet with my colleagues. Despite the light rain, my spirit was high because the steak is really really yummy (the restaurant carries foods that are solid honest and never pretentious). One of the bungee cord in the back fell and got tangled into the back wheel gears, no matter how hard I tried, I cannot pull it out. A man came to my rescue, but this is obviously hard to solve without proper tool. He ran home and returned with a pair of scissors, we cut off the portion of the cord that was visible, the bike seemed ok to ride. I thank him from the bottom of my heart (I hate to miss the steak), bid him farewell and continued my journey. Strangely, the back tire was flat after the incident. Driven by the steak dinner, I rode on, thinking there should be a way to find an air pump in the steak house.
Difficult ride it was, it was worthwhile. To my disappointment, the steak house staff had no air pump. Our team finished the dinner and they all walked me to pick up my bike. As I calculated my options since it is virtually impossible to ride another 30 minutes with this condition. My colleague, Bill, found there was a air pump strapped to the back of the bicycle just right next to mine. We borrowed the pump, quickly fixed my tire. Thank god I can ride back home with it again. A small luck after the disaster.
P.S. My bike started to behave strangely after that night, when the back wheel spins, it touches the frame at one point. I suspected the ride on flat tire has bent the wheel.
P.S.2 Duck tapes fix everything, I taped the broken fender, good as new!
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