Chatting to a couple of chaps about my bike on the train last night. (bit of background, long straggly, greasy hair, eclectic dress sense, engineering types who have spent their whole adult lives in adacemia/locked away from society. Think Dr Oaken from Independence Day)

It’s an ebike so that was the focus of the chat, how the battery/motor works/legality etc they ask questions, I answer. Then….

‘Yes, it’s a nice looking thing. The aesthetic of bicycles does seem to have improved now that they have become a middle class status symbol’.

Err, thanks?

Any you’d care to share?

Train?

I assume both Audis were in the garage.

E-bike AND on a train?
😉

I assume both Audis were in the garage

Yeah, bodywork repair, some **** in a tractor wouldn’t wait for me to finish my morning constitutional.

E-bike AND on a train?

Usually a normal bike, but I have a doctors note for the ebike for the next few weeks, m’lud.

Yeah, bodywork repair, some **** in a tractor wouldn’t wait for me to finish my morning constitutional.

I thought that was your F-tpype.. he should have really waited.

What ebike is a “nice looking thing”?? What nonsense!

What ebike is a “nice looking thing”?? What nonsense!

A middle class status symbol one. Thought that was obvious… 🙄

You don’t sweat much for a fat lass.

When I used to fit windows I was always covered in white silicone and acrylic and I bumped into a friends mum who said based on my appearance “ oh you’re a painter, atleast your working”

another friends dad (Asian) told me of the birth of another mutual friend I had not seen in ages baby, “Paul’s had a baby,
only a girl but better than nothing”

I had a friend i’d not seen for a while tell me whilst a little drunk:

“you’ve lost a lot of weight, but you’ve still got a really round head…!”

An old lady, describing a nurse who’d looked after her for several weeks:
“She was a lovely girl, just like you. I don’t mean pretty, she had a really lovely personality.”
Errr . . . thanks, Joan! 😥

I brought some cake in to work. The MD told me “if the <career> doesn’t work out for you, at least you can always turn to baking” 😐