{"id":14392,"date":"2011-02-05T05:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T10:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/14392\/wrench-alive\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T05:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T10:39:38","slug":"wrench-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/14392\/wrench-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"She’s Going Under the Wrench… and she may not make it out alive."},"content":{"rendered":"

Me, earlier this evening, about 5 PM:<\/span><\/span>
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\nLa la la la!\u00a0 Okay, it\u2019s raining and I\u2019m getting completely soaked as I bicycle along, but it\u2019s all good!\u00a0 I\u2019m having fun, almost to the bus stop, on my way to the open mic night!\u00a0 La la la la!! <\/em> <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

SCRRRUNCHEKEE THUNK!\u00a0 KLAAAAK!!! <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

(Bicycle simply stops, almost throwing me)<\/p>\n


\nWhat the hell?\u00a0 Holy cow!\u00a0 Would you look at that?\u00a0 The gear shifter thingie down at the rear wheel\u2026 It\u2019s definitely NOT supposed to look like that.\u00a0 Maybe I can bend it back\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

:::Joko fumbles with gear shifting thingamajig, freeing up chain, but eventually giving up, realizing this is beyond something he can fix by hand:::<\/p>\n

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Well, I\u2019m almost to the bus stop anyways.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just roll the bike there, jump off at the stop where Harvy\u2019s Bike Repair is, and keep going to the open mic\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Which is exactly what I did\u2026 See the video below.<\/p>\n

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So, tomorrow, my bike goes \u201cunder the wrench\u201d so to speak.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to precisely describe the part of the frame that is bent.\u00a0 It\u2019s the part that holds the gear shifter thingiemajigee in place.\u00a0 Really bad design that this piece could be intergral to the frame and so easily bent.\u00a0 If, tomorrow, during the bicycle surgery, while trying to bend this piece back, there is a chance it sould simply break off completely.\u00a0 As this is PART of the frame, and the frame is pretty much the heart of the bicycle itself, if this little metal piece breaks, my bike is totaled.\u00a0 Not something that can be fixed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The bike repair shop made me sign a quickly handwritten waiver that if they break the frame in the process of the repair, that\u2019s simply too bad.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t responsible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*Gulp*\u00a0 I\u2019m so nervous! <\/strong> My trusty steed is going into a procedure from which she may not emerge alive!\u00a0 That would so suck!\u00a0 Oh, Internet Friends, please send out your positive thoughts to the universe that this does not happen!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the open mic, I performed live the song I did the other night at home and included in my last blog.\u00a0 It\u2019s rare I can do a whole song live without a single fuck up\u2026 this was one such occasion!\u00a0 I nailed it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After the performance, one of the other musicians came up to me and said: \u201cMy buddy wanted to give you this,\u201d and handed me the card below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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HA!! THIS WAS AWESOME!\u00a0 A Get Out of Hell Free card!\u00a0 This may come in handy some day!\u00a0 I assumed the card was a bit of sarcastic irony, like the Doctor Sparkles song I had just finished singing.\u00a0 Ummm\u2026 I turned the card over and looked at the other side.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh.\u00a0 \u201cREJECT JESUS and burn in HELL\u201d\u00a0 Psalms 9:17\u00a0 (wait a minute, don\u2019t the Psalms pre-date<\/strong> Jesus?)<\/em><\/p>\n


\nDoesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 I got the card now.\u00a0 I can get of Hell free, and I don\u2019t even have to try and roll doubles.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Me, earlier this evening, about 5 PM: La la la la!\u00a0 Okay, it\u2019s raining and I\u2019m getting completely soaked as I bicycle along, but it\u2019s all good!\u00a0 I\u2019m having fun, almost to the bus stop, on my way to the open mic night!\u00a0 La la la la!! SCRRRUNCHEKEE THUNK!\u00a0 KLAAAAK!!! (Bicycle simply stops, almost throwing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,840,18],"tags":[1716,761,1582,81,106],"class_list":["post-14392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-religion-2","category-technology","tag-bicycle","tag-hell","tag-jesus","tag-joko","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}