26 May 2009

Bike lock exchanges amongst strangers

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On Friday night I was riding with Rat Patrol and we’d come to rest outside The Front in Lyneham. (Some beers may have been drunk, and possibly some tequila, but I’m sure no-one was over the limit because that would be bad.)

There was a rocking crowd enjoying the bands into which the freak bikes and their riders slipped in and an astonishing tangle of twisted, cut, and welded metal (our bikes) was piled up against the tree.

At some point I noticed a cute young lady checking out the bikes so I went over and asked if I could help.

As it happened I could. She worked at The Front and needed to borrow a bike lock for the night (presumably for the locking up of a bike). In a generous mood I handed over my lock and its key and arranged to collect them from her the next day when she was also working.

For some mysterious reason the day after the ride I was weirdly sensitive to bright light and loud noise, not to mention nauseous. In fact it was heading into the evening when I even remembered I’d lent my lock to a complete stranger the night before.

A message to The Front’s Paul Jamieson confirmed that, in fact, there was a lock awaiting collection behind the bar and I picked it up last night, somewhat surprised by the attached note.

(Sadly despite being written on a pink heart the note contains no email or phone number).

Now at around $30 the lock isn’t the kind of money you can do something serious with (like buy a book), but I just wanted to note how much I like living in a community where you can lend something to help out a complete stranger and get it back. Doubly so with pink heart shaped notes attached, even if it turns out that was just what was handy.

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Pink heart = flirting

whereas

Yawn = back of old tissue box

I dunno. The cute young lady’s story sounds suspicious to me.

She wanted a bike lock so she was checking out locked bikes. What was going to happen when she found one? I presume it would have been used for locking the bike.

Would she then have put a lovely little love heart note on it requesting that the owner of the lock talk to her about a loan of the lock?

I reckon she was up to no good and used her cuteness to get her out of any issues with johnboy. Worked a treat too. Amazing what a good dose of cute can do.

🙂

I dunno. The cute young lady’s story sounds suspicious to me.

She wanted a bike lock so she was checking out locked bikes. What was going to happen when she found one? I presume it would have been used for locking the bike.

Would she then have put a lovely little love heart not on it requesting that the owner of the lock talk to her about a loan of the lock?

I reckon she was up to no good and used her cuteness to get her out of any issues with johnboy. Worked a treat too. Amazing what a good dose of cute can do.

🙂

what a playa, she has thousands of those heart shape stickies that she lets loose everyday on unsuspecting men

Damn I knew there was one way I had forgot to try to pick up a hot girl..

…and +1 to hk0reduck being particularly attractive!

+1 for hk0reduck being the lass with the lock…

That really wasn’t the point of the article i-filed.

Alas, the heart shape hasn’t been cut out specially. It’s from a pad of precuts. So, JB, how can you know whether she meant it? Full marks for putting yourself out there!

Granny, monomania, you can both leave it or cool it in mod.

One of the blokes at work this arvo told us all to look out the window at “the F**&wit on the bike”. I took offence on behalf on JB and the Rat Patrol and advised they guy to modify his behaviour as the bike was a custom built Rat bike. Wasn’t you was it JB, riding through Braddon at about 4:50’ish?

Granny said :

Why don’t you tell us all about it? You’re so good at telling stories.

I think I might have done my story to death. Actually I liked your gunslinger story Granny. Very well made up. I’m glad fiction is now allowed.

deezagood said :

Okay Granny and Mono – separate corners or I’ll have to put you both on the naughty step!

Not the same step. Please. Perhaps separate corners of a graveyard.

Hang on … how much does mono weigh? I don’t know about this separate corners thing. I reckon I’ll opt for the naughty step …. Besides, it sounds like fun!

johnboy said :

hk0reduck is neither a lady, nor particularly attractive I suspect.

Maybe hk0reduck is the Stig !

Okay Granny and Mono – separate corners or I’ll have to put you both on the naughty step!

Why don’t you tell us all about it? You’re so good at telling stories.

Not the only story lately of a “White Knight” stepping in to help a Damsel in distress.

Well, I think it’s a very nice post. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of good news every now and then.

deezagood said :

This is lovely JB, but newsworthy?

This is by no means the most self-indulgent of Johnboy’s postings.
http://the-riotact.com/?p=836

ALL – Angst Poetry returns to RiotACT By johnboy July 28, 2005

Things were even wierder in the Time Before The Current Archive.

maybe, if she drove, she’d be the type to wave to thank other drivers for courtesy…

but i suspect if she can’t afford a bike lock she probably can’t afford a whole car.

and no relation of mine!

hk0reduck is neither a lady, nor particularly attractive I suspect.

James-T-Kirk4:05 pm 26 May 09

Hmmm that caused silence for 14 minutes – such was the level of wow!

I am the girl in the OP.

The note says:

“Fom Johy,

Flom crazy bird
club. Thank
you michly
Fryary”

deezagood said :

jessieduck said :

Bless the Inner North and it’s little cotton socks- if this had happened in Tuggers the person loaning the lock would have hit you over the head with it and ridden off on your bike with your wallet in his back pocket.

Tuggers would indeed be a much happier place if only more people used heart-shaped post it notes to express themselves (instead of guns,knives and fists).

errr. if i gave a heart shaped post it note to express myself in tuggers, the ribbing i would get would be unbearable.

The Brad said :

On the topic of heart warming stories, on the other side of the world someone saved a duck…..
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/amazingduck.asp

Downtown Spokane is where it’s AT!

Lady_from_Holt said :

What does the note say – I cant read it (she says with her nose pressed against the screen creating unwholesome smudges and squinting eyes)

For JOHN from crazy bike club. thank you muchly, Felicity (? this last word is a guess)

On the topic of heart warming stories, on the other side of the world someone saved a duck…..
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/amazingduck.asp

Lady_from_Holt said :

What does the note say – I cant read it (she says with her nose pressed against the screen creating unwholesome smudges and squinting eyes)

For John from the crazy bike club. Thank you muchly. (can’t read the cute young lady’s name either)

jessieduck said :

Bless the Inner North and it’s little cotton socks- if this had happened in Tuggers the person loaning the lock would have hit you over the head with it and ridden off on your bike with your wallet in his back pocket.

Tuggers would indeed be a much happier place if only more people used heart-shaped post it notes to express themselves (instead of guns,knives and fists).

Jim Jones said :

I can’t wait for the post about the restraining order.

lmao

Bless the Inner North and it’s little cotton socks- if this had happened in Tuggers the person loaning the lock would have hit you over the head with it and ridden off on your bike with your wallet in his back pocket.

Jim Jones said :

I can’t wait for the post about the restraining order.

Ha!

I can’t wait for the post about the restraining order.

This is lovely JB, but newsworthy? Oh well, since we’re sharing nice stories – an actual lycra-wearing cyclist voluntarily said ‘thanks-a-lot’ to me this morning when the dogs and I moved out of his way on the bikepath. That almost never happens… made me feel all warm inside.

Danman said :

Reading into them more than what they mean is a common male trait that even I still display.

Even you Danman? Egads we’re all doomed!!!

RSVP = Riotact’s Sentimental oVerlord’s Personals

If that was the case, should have just rocked back up to the front to get said girls details.

Girls do things like this because they are cutesey, its what they do. Reading into them more than what they mean is a common male trait that even I still display.

Lady_from_Holt11:25 am 26 May 09

What does the note say – I cant read it (she says with her nose pressed against the screen creating unwholesome smudges and squinting eyes)

Is this a thinly guised attempt to retrieve said cute girls email or phone number so when it is retrieved you can get a tv spot on Sunrise with Kochy and Mel about how two strangers fell in love via weird and wacky circumstances?

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