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Originally Posted by no motor?
(Post 13543973)
Mine is the office next to mine. If I see another bike there I'm going to make sure it's not GriddleCakes before I complain.
I'll never look in his freezer. Anybody seen the fat kid lately?! LOL |
Originally Posted by Nobodyetal
(Post 13544307)
I can't tell you how stoked I'd be if I showed up at work and there was a bike in my spot.
That would double the number of bicycle commuters at my workplace. :D |
Originally Posted by Igo
(Post 13545998)
Same here. Double.
And, he can use my spot the next two days. My rear hub bearings are shot and the bike has to go in for a hub rebuild tomorrow. Funny part is the discount I plan on getting - the mechanic sold me the wheelset last summer, and he had supposedly rebuilt the hubs before he sold them. To be honest, I don't need a discount, I've already extracted payment by way of the crap I was able to give him when I stopped at the shop on the way home today. |
Originally Posted by Nobodyetal
(Post 13544307)
I can't tell you how stoked I'd be if I showed up at work and there was a bike in my spot.
That would double the number of bicycle commuters at my workplace. :D |
For me, what makes a spot seem like it's mine is the fact that I know no one ever parks there or wouldn't bother to park there. So it's sort of a surprise when someone does! My spots are away from other bikes (I don't like parking my bike at a rack next to other bikes or potentially next to other bikes). Usually if there is a bike already parked, it's sometimes a bit of a pain to position your bike to lock it up. Or I'd hate coming out to see that someone has carelessly or inconsiderately leaned his or her bike on mine! So that's why I prefer parking in my own designated areas that most people don't use or haven't thought of using. And btw, these spots are visible and would be a theft deterrent. It seems many racks are behind corners away from foot traffic.
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Originally Posted by GriddleCakes
(Post 13542822)
A few summers back I was working a regular kitchen closing shift, which meant that I generally showed up too late to grab a spot at the sole bike rack, so instead I adopted a "No Parking Loading Zone Only" sign as my spot. Then one day I show up and there's a crappy Mike's Hard Lemonade branded, X-mart full suspension POS in my spot. No biggie, except that it turned out to belong to my fellow closing cook, Tim.
I hated Tim, and I am not using that word lightly; so deep had my hate for Tim become during the two months that we worked together, it had undermined my most basic respect for the sanctity of human life. That is, if the societal repercussions for homicide had disappeared, I would've gleefully bludgeoned Tim to death by jamming his fat, lazy head in the door of the walk-in fridge and then slammed the door closed on his moronic melon over and over while screaming "WILL <slam> YOU <slam> READ <slam> YOUR <slam> TICKETS <slam> NOW <slam> MOTHER******?" Or maybe just fed him face first into the mechanical slicer. Anyway, it turned out that Tim was as much of a wimp as he was incompetent and lazy. After riding the bike that his boyfriend gave him all the way (3 miles) to work, he decided that it hurt his butt too much (this coming from a guy who regularly engaged in anal sex) and called his bf for a ride home. And then left his bike locked up in my spot. For the next two weeks. Finally the kitchen manager came back from maternity leave and fired Tim for being the useless lump of **** that he was. After he had been gone for a couple of days, I borrowed a set of bolt cutters from a friend and snipped his bike lock, then rolled his bike out of my spot and over to an unoccupied parking meter. It disappeared after two weeks; I don't know whether it was stolen or confiscated by the city, and I didn't care. I had my spot back. |
i changed spots this morning. i now keeps my new bike under the stairs outside one of the classrooms at my school rather than outside with the other bikes. there is another bike there but i get there earlier and shove mine in the corner. i guess i'm kind of moving in on the other guys territory. i get there first so his bike blocks mine in but its worth it for a safer spot.
he also has a more expensive bike and never locks it so that should keeps any thieves away from mine. |
Originally Posted by mynameuk
(Post 13546639)
i changed spots this morning. i now keeps my new bike under the stairs outside one of the classrooms at my school rather than outside with the other bikes. there is another bike there but i get there earlier and shove mine in the corner. i guess i'm kind of moving in on the other guys territory. i get there first so his bike blocks mine in but its worth it for a safer spot.
he also has a more expensive bike and never locks it so that should keeps any thieves away from mine. |
As bike parking goes, it's pretty bad at home, since I live in an apartment building... but at work, it's another story!!!
As ridiculous as this may sound, my trusty commuter has a full size parking space in a high security area where no-one other than the boss and myself have access to! Specifically, the company where I work has two high-level executive parking spots in the basement of the building where only a handful of cars are allowed. Because of a number of incidents where the second space (not normally occupied, but non-the-less rented) was taken up by another car, the boss requested that I park my bike dead middle of the space! So lousy parking at home with little security, and vip parking at work with dedicated remotes for the main gates, executive parking garage and rfid keycard for access to all these areas! lol Anyway... arriving on Monday morning, I was surprised to find a car parked in "my" spot. After a quick call to security, the owner (wife of an executive from a different company) was found and prompted to quickly remove the car or have it towed! Needless to say, she was pretty miffed when she saw me "park" my commuter bike when she was driving away in an X-type! |
Originally Posted by GriddleCakes
(Post 13542822)
AAnyway, it turned out that Tim was as much of a wimp as he was incompetent and lazy. After riding the bike that his boyfriend gave him all the way (3 miles) to work, he decided that it hurt his butt too much (this coming from a guy who regularly engaged in anal sex) and called his bf for a ride home.
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Originally Posted by Telly
(Post 13548686)
Anyway... arriving on Monday morning, I was surprised to find a car parked in "my" spot. After a quick call to security, the owner (wife of an executive from a different company) was found and prompted to quickly remove the car or have it towed! Needless to say, she was pretty miffed when she saw me "park" my commuter bike when she was driving away in an X-type!
Originally Posted by cooker
(Post 13548779)
I feel that way about women who complain that bike seats hurt, even though they're always using their vaginas for sex.
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Originally Posted by GriddleCakes
(Post 13548808)
I'll bet she was pissed! That's hilarious.
I don't think that the ladies are supposed to be riding on their vaginas, like how dude's aren't supposed to be riding on their junk. We're all supposed to ride on our butts, I believe. |
Originally Posted by cooker
(Post 13548856)
Not on our anus. Or that planet...what's it called again?
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