I\u2019m standing in front of the shop, it\u2019s 11 30am (opens at 10am). No one inside, a sign says that I have to knock if there\u2019s no one at the desk. I do.<\/p>\n
I wait a couple of minutes wondering if I should knock harder. A dude shows up behind me and looks like he wants to enter the shop. I recognize the shop owner and say hi. I start to explain my bike brake problem and he\u2019s all like \u201coh yeah, that\u2019s not the good cable\u201d<\/em> and I\u2019m all like \u201cyeah, this bike stuff is confusing, so many standards\u201d<\/em> and he\u2019s going all \u201cmeh, not really\u201d<\/em> on me. Bitch.<\/p>\n \u201chow much does it cost?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re at 50 euros an hour and it\u2019s probably 15 minutes of work.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOK so I leave my bike to you and come back later today?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, keep your bike and come back this afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c??? OK, what time?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAfter 3pm.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c??? OK, thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n I don\u2019t fucking understand how this shop is surviving. I don\u2019t get France. Fifteen minutes of work he could have done with me, chatting and my day would have been different, the future would have been bright.<\/p>\n Of course I\u2019d rather do it my fucking self with services like that, no wonder I dived into independence so hard.<\/p>\n It\u2019s things like this.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m standing in front of the shop, it\u2019s 11 30am (opens at 10am). No one inside, a sign says that I have to knock if there\u2019s no one at the desk. I do. I wait a couple of minutes wondering if I should knock harder. A dude shows up behind me and looks like he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}