As some of you know I picked up an old 3-speed Dunelt bicycle awhile back. So I decide I want to ride it around town, and this being Boone there are hills. Being out of shape I decide to regear the bike. So I order a 22 tooth rear cog. It came yesterday and today I put it on the bike.
The old chain is too short to fit the axle, it will not even reach the slot. So I figure a chain will be cheap at Wal-Mart, so I rush out and brave the Saturday before Christmas crowd at the the big-box outlet. After fighting my way to the back of the store having to detour around people who have not seen each other since last Christmas and want to have a family reunion in the aisle, actually at the intersection of aisles so they can block two at once. This is not just one inconsiderate group, there when several unless the were running about the store to get ahead of me; being properly paranoid, I would not bet against it. I get to the toy department and right there is an empty peg, So I run around the store until I find someone in a blue vest. He walks back with me to the toy department and points to the empty peg and says they are right there. We go back and forth a bit and it quickly becomes obvious he is not going to check to see if there are any in stock, and I leave getting a bottle of grapefruit juice that I had been putting off getting because I did not want to go to Wal-Mart at this time a year, but that Wal-Mart had for six-bits less than the grocery stores, and to me six-bits is a half-days worth of groceries. So it is raining anyway, and I can wait until after New Year to get a chain, or I can order it off the internet. It is a buck cheaper on the internet, $4.56 as opposed to $5.56 but they want $5.00 shipping. I know, I know, I should never have kicked that puppy. -- Graywolf Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
