Yesterday was bananas, riding bikes down here in North Fl there's loads of sand, dust, and bugs so having a nice set of sunglasses is key. Wouldn't you know it yesterday around noon I went to the JJ loo and found a $150 set of Ray-Ban stunner shades (bling bling edition) sitting on the soap dispenser. No one claimed them so now I'm channeling Corey Hart and wearing them all day because the lenses on these glasses are so good you can do it safely(?). Also showing up to a customer at night with shades on might be good for tips they are like lol wtf shades at night? Standard response is they are prescription, either way I've never owned a nice set of real ray ban glasses and absolutely love these, they actually have a serial number.
Left work at 12:15 am and did 46 deliveries for about $90 which is pretty standard because the average tip per check is around $2.
Part of our delivery zone includes the FAMU (Fl Agricultural and Mechanical university) campus and after completing a delivery there last night in front of their main dorm at 677 Gamble st a guy asked me if I could deliver him two berry flavored backwoods. I said sure, $3 + cost of cigars and no problem as there are two gas stations in between that dorm and our shop. I left the dorm, bought the cigars and wrote down his number for whoever would next go to that location and my boy Aiden delivered those cigars unfortunately he wrecked his bike going down a steep, wet, sandy, hill after passing through a roundabout. From the looks of his road rash, cuts, and scrapes it was surely a hard fall that particular roundabout is very dangerous despite being new as some drivers will refuse to give you the right of way and they enter it at 20+ when your going downhill at similar speed.
After buying the cigars at gasso a local Biker who I know well, undocumented guy from Honduras was sitting on the pavement looking sad and apparently he had busto tube on his bike so he asked if I had one. Of course I have a spare 700cc tube because 99% of the time there's one in my seat bag along with patch kit, multi tool, tire levers, brooks saddle cover and possibly a roach or two. Sold Francisco the tube for $5, it was one of the busted tubes discarded by my coworkers that I patched.
There was a lot else that happened, diffusing fights with huge muscular drunken dudes on the JJ block, grappling match with a customer who was 40 lbs bigger than me. Calling the police on a guy who was camping on my landlords acreage because he showed up after being 86ed drunk as ****. Got done playing bike polo today which went ok, didn't have a grand showing considering all the activity and stress of Sat.
Been drinking a big bottle of wild Irish rose as I peck out this post,
For those unfamiliar with that particular brand of booze it's a "bum wine"$7 will get you a little less than a quart of ****ty sweet brutal hangover inducing grog.
Here's a great George Jones song about the degradation of said beverage
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UfAPhJW5fOY
Another 10 hour day of bike delivery tomorrow hope I have some more stories maybe I'll profile one of my favorite coworkers lots to choose from.