Shopping - old blokes' experience?
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Brighton, UK
Posts: 1,561
Bikes: Rocky Mountain Solo, Specialised Sirrus Triple (quick road tourer), Santana Arriva Tandem
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 7 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Shopping - old blokes' experience?
So, last Thursday night, I was setting out my kit for the Friday (our weekend here) ride. Slightly fussy, I know, but it's an early morning start before the heat builds up, so I like to have things ready.
Shoes and socks, gloves, helmet, sun glasses, gloves - all ok. Jersey and shorts - where? Increasingly old bloke behaviour - drawers rummaged, wardrobes sifted, R rated vocabulary exercised. Drawers emptied on the floor. X rated vocabulary enacted.
No kit found. Nipped out to the bike shop ( open late during Ramadan). Bought the yellow Nike jersey and Assos shorts I had before, wondering if I'd left my old ones in UK on my trip there last week.
A good ride. Showered and washed out the new jersey and shorts, and hung them out on the line - just next to the original yellow Nike jersey and Assos shorts, a bit dusty after their two weeks on the line.
D'oh.
Shoes and socks, gloves, helmet, sun glasses, gloves - all ok. Jersey and shorts - where? Increasingly old bloke behaviour - drawers rummaged, wardrobes sifted, R rated vocabulary exercised. Drawers emptied on the floor. X rated vocabulary enacted.
No kit found. Nipped out to the bike shop ( open late during Ramadan). Bought the yellow Nike jersey and Assos shorts I had before, wondering if I'd left my old ones in UK on my trip there last week.
A good ride. Showered and washed out the new jersey and shorts, and hung them out on the line - just next to the original yellow Nike jersey and Assos shorts, a bit dusty after their two weeks on the line.
D'oh.
#2
Boomer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 7,214
Bikes: Diamondback Clarity II frame homebuilt.
Mentioned: 106 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 16098 Post(s)
Liked 1,457 Times
in
1,064 Posts
A true 50+ story..........
__________________
#3
Senior Moment
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 1,004
Bikes: Fuji Absolute 4.0
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
well better than forgetting your kit at home and arriving at work with nothing to change into or some essential parts missing. those senior moments are a drag.
#4
Senior Member ??
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Englewood,Ohio
Posts: 5,098
Bikes: 2007 Trek Madone 5.0 WSD - 2007 Trek 4300 WSD - 2008 Trek 520 - 2014 Catrike Trail
Mentioned: 3 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
A great example of a senior moment
Everyone can use more cycling clothing
Everyone can use more cycling clothing
__________________
=============================================================
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-- Antonio Smith
=============================================================
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-- Antonio Smith
#5
www.ocrebels.com
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Los Angeles area
Posts: 6,186
Bikes: Several bikes, Road, Mountain, Commute, etc.
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 83 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 5 Times
in
2 Posts
No worries to have more cycling clothing, esp. of that high quality! You'll use them, eventually use them up. It's all good, and absolutely nothing wrong/bad about what you did. Brilliant, really!
I have to remember that one in case my wife questions why I would need any to buy any new cycling clothing!
Rick / OCRR
I have to remember that one in case my wife questions why I would need any to buy any new cycling clothing!
Rick / OCRR
#6
Junior WHAT?!?!
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 149
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
You only had ONE set on the line?
I used to wonder why my dad had so many duplicates of various things around the house. Now my kids are wondering the same about me! Thanks for laugh.
Don
I used to wonder why my dad had so many duplicates of various things around the house. Now my kids are wondering the same about me! Thanks for laugh.
Don
#7
just keep riding
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Milledgeville, Georgia
Posts: 13,560
Bikes: 2018 Black Mountain Cycles MCD,2017 Advocate Cycles Seldom Seen Drop Bar, 2017 Niner Jet 9 Alloy, 2015 Zukas custom road, 2003 KHS Milano Tandem, 1986 Nishiki Cadence rigid MTB, 1980ish Fuji S-12S
Mentioned: 15 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 173 Post(s)
Liked 33 Times
in
22 Posts
The only mistake I can see is in buying duplicates of the missing items. I would go for something different, assuming I would eventually find the others.
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: St Peters, Missouri
Posts: 30,225
Bikes: Catrike 559 I own some others but they don't get ridden very much.
Mentioned: 16 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1572 Post(s)
Liked 643 Times
in
364 Posts
How about driving 500+ miles to a long weekend bicycling event only to discover that you'd left the shoes that match your clipless pedals at home?
#9
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Shanghai, West Virginia
Posts: 524
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 7 Times
in
4 Posts
You know, we might be able to use that tactic to execute that next N+1 Maneuver. It goes, "Well lookee here Honey, my old bike was right there behind the outhouse* all along. Don't that jes' take the cake?". (CRINGE.)
* - This is West Virginia and yes there's an outhouse on my property. It's the most reliable thing in the state because it works on the Gravity Principle.
* - This is West Virginia and yes there's an outhouse on my property. It's the most reliable thing in the state because it works on the Gravity Principle.
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Posts: 16,878
Bikes: 1980 Masi, 1984 Mondonico, 1984 Trek 610, 1980 Woodrup Giro, 2005 Mondonico Futura Leggera ELOS, 1967 PX10E, 1971 Peugeot UO-8
Mentioned: 49 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1858 Post(s)
Liked 664 Times
in
506 Posts
Drove 40 miles with Mrs. Road Fan and 2 bikes for a group ride, but forgot to bring cash to pay the registration and they did not take plastic --- grrr!
#12
Cycler
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 1,499
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
For a moment there I thought you were going to say you drove to the bike shop to purchase the jersey and shorts and the guy at the counter says, "Hey...just like the kit you have on!"
Welcome to senility city. I'm often looking for my glasses and I'll find them on top of my head.
Welcome to senility city. I'm often looking for my glasses and I'll find them on top of my head.
#13
His Brain is Gone!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Paoli, Wisconsin
Posts: 9,979
Bikes: RANS Stratus, Bridgestone CB-1, Trek 7600, Sun EZ-Rider AX, Fuji Absolute 1.0, Cayne Rambler 3
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
When I drove nearly 200 miles to Lanesboro, MN for 4 days of riding last week, I found that I had left my helmet at home. After about 5 minutes of whining and cursing, I remembered that I had had an old Trek helmet wedged into a wheel well & I might not have taken it out. Moved a couple of things and there it was. Not as comfy as my regular helmet but it worked out. Else I would have been at the bike shop buying another one.
This was a case of my senior moments canceling each other out. I forgot my helmet at home, but it was canceled by my forgetting to take my other helmet out of the car.
This was a case of my senior moments canceling each other out. I forgot my helmet at home, but it was canceled by my forgetting to take my other helmet out of the car.
__________________
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L'Amour
There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L'Amour
There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post