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Originally Posted by Patricia
What about a folding bike, like the Brompton? Then you wouldn't need to store it outside.
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I've got a folding bike back in Greece, ironically. Here we decided it would be nice to have proper full-size mountain bikes. When this one gets stolen too, we may never buy non-folding bikes again.
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On a different vent and rant, my mother has been waiting for her new pocketbook 360 for AGES!
I ordered it for her 16 days ago, when her cybook gen3 finally died. It was supposed to be sent via dhl, but as the days passed and the dhl tracking site only displayed the useful "transport to destination country", my mother started a marathon of phone calls that took her from dhl to the normal post office, as for some reason dhl said the parcel was not their responsibility. The post office first told her that the parcel was sitting in Germany for like a week. Then it finally was on its way, but they expected it to take 5-15 days!
Yesterday it finally arrived in Greece, but the adventure doesn't end there. Different post office clerks couldn't agree whether it was actually in Athens or not, but at any rate it was not in the post office. Easter approaching, my parents wanted to leave for the holidays, but wanted to wait for the pocketbook. In vain, because no one can tell them anything definite, plus tomorrow is a greek national holiday so post office is closed, so it will certainly not be any sooner than Monday (which is what they said last week too). They can't even tell her if they will deliver it at home or require her to go get it.
ARRRGHHHHHHHH! I sure hope after all this it won't also be damaged on top of everything else...