Comments on: Patience is a virtue

By: Rachie

Rachie — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:18:41 +0000

Claire – sounds like we had the same experience! Everyone keeps trying to buy mine too – the car guards at the supermarket, random strangers on the street…

Good Woman – BEN are great aren’t they? They really do make sense.

Heather A – jaffa cakes. What a good idea! And sausages. And a pint of lager. I think the calendar might get a bit crowded.

Class factotum – hello! Yes, he is. Although he’s the exception rather than the rule! But really, I think he needs the money more than me – my potential earning capacity is far, far greater than his will ever be. As is yours, I imagine.

Moobs – yeah, me too.

By: Moobs

Moobs — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:36:03 +0000

SOunds like me before christmas when I was 4

By: class factotum

class factotum — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:19:45 +0000

At least he is willing to pay. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile and months before I left, my co-workers started to ask what I intended to do with my clothes. (Yes, that vast fashionable wardrobe of threadbare jeans, turtleneck shirts, and pilled-up sweaters.)

I had to keep informing them that they wore clothes where I was going and that I was pretty sure I would still need them when I left.

Carolina wanted to buy my refrigerator, which was fine, but I left before my roommate did. He gave her the fridge — and she never paid him. She owes me $100. I want it.

By: Heather A.

Heather A. — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:04:49 +0000

Maybe you should get David a big calendar and a bright red pen for making X’s over the days as they pass. Draw a bike on the day you leave. Then get one for yourself, and draw a plane and some Jaffa cakes on yours.

By: The Good Woman

The Good Woman — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:16:34 +0000

Glad to see you giving BEN a plug. They’re in South Africa and have links to projects in Malawi as well (quite possibly others too). It’s just one of those organisations that makes sense. I’m sure you’ve encountered others that don’t.

At least you know your bike will be in good hands.

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:41:16 +0000

I had exactly the same thing when I left Africa. Everyone wanted to buy my bike – I promised it to the handyman guy at our house and he’d check with me every week that he was still top of the list for me to sell it to!