As some of you may know, I turned 21 recently. Perhaps you'd like to hear a bit about it. Either way, I'm going to tell you :) I don't have much to tell because, well, I think you can put together what 21'st birthdays usually entail.
The Wednesday night of November the 4th was a quiet one and I wasn't planning on a huge get together, or even really planing on drinking, for that matter. I eventually mentioned that it was my birthday to a few guys and told them to come over for a few drinks. Word got out quick and a few hours later, 30 or so people were hangin out in my kitchen drinkin' brews, singing songs, Prosting, and havin' a ball. Lets just say a few hours later it was time to go to bed and the next day reminded me of the good times from the night before. The only downside was that I was a little to "tired the next day to make the usually spontaneous weekend plans for the weekend, which is the reason I didn't have anything to write about recently. The weekend was boring, with nothing to do, and nowhere to travel, but I did get ahead on some homework.
A few days into the week, I believe this past Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to come across a bike in the garbage. Bikes here are like holy grails, they are impossible to find the way I did, extremely expensive used(no cheaper than $150 for a rusty piece of crap 20 or more years old) and pretty much for the lottery winners, new ($300 and waaaayyyyy more). so anyway, I found the bike in a garbage pile and saw that the owner of the apartment (behind the pile) was moving out so I asked if the bike was being thrown away. He said it was all mine if I could get the lock off and fix it...and he didn't know I had to carry it 15 blocks uphill either. Hell, what were the chances he was actually getting rid of the bike. A few trips to the all purpose store for tools, I simply hacksawed the lock off, and ALMOST fixed the chain. I'm hopin' to sell it but I'm not getting too excited yet. I have 17 days of cold (apparently constant rain) left and thats if I can even find the time to attempt to fix it. Long story short, I hope to fix it, ride it for a few days, and sell it for some 100 bucks or so.
The irony of the situation was that 10 minutes before (thinking about how I've found several bikes in the garbage) I was realizing how rare it is for someone to throw away a bike in Germany due to its' high worth. Honestly, creeped me out when I saw it laying in the trash heap.
Moral of this story...just think about how unlikely it would be to find a million bucks in a dumpster...and the next one you pass will probably be overflowing. Ha, actually, don't write off a good looking possibility, even if it's laying in a garage pile and looks a little too broken to fix. I'll let you know if I can sell it. Out
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