Freaks at Fred Meyers

I rode to Fred Meyers to pick up some apples for breakfast. As I was locking up my bike to the rack out front, this scroungy guy made a bee line for me and my bike.

'Hey, I'm not going to touch it. Can I look at your shifter thingies?'

I figured why not. He looked at them.

'My buddy says any bike that has those things are worth over $2000.'

I always get suspicous when someone talks about how much things are worth.

"Naw, you can get them on a $500 bike."

'Well, it's a fancy looking bike. You're locking it up here?'

I was using a Kryptonite cable lock and putting it around the tires and the bike. I figured it would be okay. Except for this goon staring at it wondering how much it would be worth.

He looked it over for a while longer and then started walking away. 'Don't know why the hell you'd lock that bike up here.'

While I was quickly buying apples and I kept checking on my bike through the window, making sure the freak wasn't standing around it. The checkout lady said I should bring my bike into the store next time. I'm guessing other customers there wouldn't like it, but when it's early I don't see why not.

Posted by Sam at August 28, 2003 12:53 PM