A bridge

I'm cold. And tired. I tried sleeping earlier while feeling cold, it didn't work. I forgot to change my top after chasing my own shadow in the morning, going on a useless trip almost to the city center and then to the flea market. That was not the only useless trip for the day, just the first one. The sun was so bright that i remembered that now that i'm wearing contact lenses i need sunglasses. Can't get rid of them glasses no matter what. I was squinting the whole trip. I took my kick scooter out for a ride. I was 5 minutes late to a meeting that had taken place the day before and i had not been told. Should have checked before leaving. I woke up at 7 and fell back to sleep. Thankfully, i didn't leave that early on my useless trip. After i took a useless trip downtown (uptown, theoretically? the river flows from the west to the east), i visited the flea market to check on the available second-hand bikes. Tough luck, the guys selling what most probably are stolen bikes wouldn't leave the price below almost 100 euros. That's insane for a second hand bike. Really. What the hell are they thinking... Nobody will buy their precious stolen bikes at those prices. So i left, but not before scavenging in a pile of sweaters and finding two at the amazing price of 0.5 euros. Both. I should think i have enough sweaters, but i just can't resist red wool. Besides, had i left like that, it would have been a waste of a good hour and 25 cents (the entry fee). I returned home, tired and weak, since i had just had my breakfast, a sandwich i had whipped up just before leaving hurriedly to get to that meeting that didn't happen. I took a nap and waited for some signs of life from the owner of my potential future bike, that was 50 euros, not 100. I had to change three buses and drag a friend around with me for absolutely nothing. The guy didn't even answer the questions i asked him, specifically where we should meet. He said he was still working and that i shouldn't leave. I was already on my way, and it's a pretty long way. I couldn't turn back midway. What would i do? So we went for a walk in the muddy woods, the gorgeous weather slowly turned to frigid and i started freezing a bit, we walked up two hills and killed some time, the guy decided that he wouldn't answer any of my calls or my new messages. That sucked. If you want to sell something, don't make the potential buyer chase you around with their money. It pissed me off, since i really wanted a bike and i had taken two city buses and a 'metropolitan' bus to get there and he wouldn't even tell me when and where we could meet to see the damned bike. That's so idiotic... I wonder if i could leave some feedback on the website that i found the bike on. This guy cannot be trusted to even take your money, let alone give you something in return. Luckily, my friend the cycling guy knows another guy (that i also know, but haven't talked to since i met him two years ago) who has a repair/recondition shop for old-ish bikes. Apparently he has decent prices (that are not online because some people choose to do online business like that - as to why, beats me) and a few bikes within my budget (i am willing to go up to 65 euros for a bike in a good shape). The bad news is that the shop is in the same town/village as this other guy who didn't answer my calls. So i'll have to take another trip there, this time hopefully with a little more luck. I do want a bike, it would make my life so much easier. Goodbye buses and idiotic timetables and 'no service during the weekend'. If i want to go somewhere during the weekend or the weekday between 9-12 and 17-21, there is no chance i'll be able to do it with less than two bus tickets. That's insane, because they're not time tickets, but bus specific. Bleh. So if i want to go to the outskirts of the city on a weekend, when there is less traffic and more time to enjoy nature, i can't unless i walk or go by my kick scooter, which is cute, but so not compatible with our sidewalks and the long distances... The bridge on my street is also horrific. If there's something i hate in this life, on this planet, is that awful bridge. That's it. I wish.. I can't wish anything about it, it's about to collapse into the river anyway...