That’s a bit harsh. I’m glad I didn’t reach out to people here with help with my true problems here in Taiwan (I exposed myself accidentally to a beautiful young women… who’s blind… what should I do? Or I was escorting a cos play schoolgirl to a funeral but we ended up in a love hotel in Gaoxiong? What should I do? etc etc etc) I would have been laughed at, or accused of making stuff up.
I for one thought the post was informative re the process of reporting a missing bike in Taiwan. Even better was all the drama and poetry compressed into this vignette of Formosan life: bike lost then found, beautiful cop (orphaned?), unsolved mystery (was bike stolen, borrowed, forgotten?), past trauma with lost bikes, a lock that is not locked when locked etc
I remember when my giant bike was stolen. It was chained right in front of my dorm, and someone managed to take it. I assembled that bike when I was in Junior high, and shipped it from Germany to the US. By the time I was about to graduate from college it was already 10 years old. Sure, it probably didn’t worth much at that point, but it has a history with me, and it was still in good condition.
The police came and took some notes, and I never heard from them again.
So I understand how OP feels, and I am glad the bike is found.
i for one would pay a nice sum for seeing a poor fat man riding his bicycle with a basket and no saddle.
nah, don’t get too stressed, this is the internet, specifically forumosa, people are going to make assumptions, judge and make blank statements non stop.
This Forumosa place I think is a safe place, we’re all just trying to get along, chat, enjoy some life and love online, and maybe include some humor, nothing personal.
We must ask ourselves whether the saddle and basket were ever replaced and whether it is the same bicycle that went missing in this yarn (a long or rambling story, especially one that is implausible - Oxford dictionary)
I had a US$2,000 bike stolen overnight from my nice housing complex parking garage private access in Singapore and it was locked with something like this Kryptonite u-lock.
It was definitely a rare bike for Asia because I bought in USA and bought it with me to Asia.
Very high security and they reviewed the footage and couldn’t find anything hmmmm wonder why. Because someone on the staff part of the theft!
Busy making himself worthy of the sweet-voiced cop by losing weight and getting rich with his new business, a boutique dating agency called “Orphantasy”
