So, I'm in the fabric shop to collect the new curtains they've made up
for us and the ladies seem very unsettled by my proposal to take them
home on my bike trailer, especially when they discover it already holds
a new kitchen bin of a fair size, plus a load of groceries. There
follows the usual conversation in which I try briefly to explain that I
don't use a bike for shopping either because I've lost my driving
licence or am too poor to afford a car. Carbon emissions, climate
change, yadda, yadda...
After carefully explaining to me that cramming the curtains into a
trailer might irretrievably crush the fabric and after a sort of dubious
acceptance of my clearly crackpot intention to proceed, the ladies hand
over the bag of curtain things and then one of them says "And the
curtain track?"
Bummer. I find I'm rather less jaunty about riding home with a loaded
trailer and about eight feet of plastic curtain track. I can only hope
I look suitably nonchalant as I carry the thing out to the bike and try
to work out a method of transporting it, involving one large rubber band
which is the only form of attachment I have with me.
I did make it home, with the curtain track lashed to the top tube and
sticking out ahead of me like a lance at a tournament. Interesting
journey though..
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Brian G
www.wetwo.co.uk