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Thursday, September 25, 2008

*bling bling*

Got some bling for Bella today. Bella is my bicycle, in case anyone is wondering, because bicycles should be anthropomorphized lest they become moody.

Anyway, I went to REI to get a 50-cent (not the rapper) clip for Chaco's sandals because he'd broken the original. How DOES he do it? I went in to get the clip and came out with the clip and the bling. See it?




It's sort of hard to see in this grainy, poor-backgrounded photo, but it's there all right. Anyone? Let's play I SPY!

I SPY Bella's new bike bling. More specifically, I SPY Bella's new ring-a-ding-ding bike bling.

Yeah, I got one of those nerdy bells. A bell for Bella.


Here's an enlargement:




See? Really, though, I'd been wanting to get one of these for a while. They are quite functional, and I was tired of coming up behind people on the paths and having to say, "ON YER LEFT!"

And, recently, I was the recipient of one of these dingle-lings. I must've been out walking the dog when I heard this cheerful little mechanical chirp. I turned around to see a large man on a burly bicycle headed right for us. That cheerful little mechanical chirp was so much nicer than an "ON YER LEFT!" or a "MOVE OVER!" or a "COMIN' THROUGH" or, worse, nothing, only to be startled silly when the large man on the burly bike went cruising on by.

So I wanted one too.

The big box store didn't have them, although they had two different models of those obnoxious ah-OOOO-gah horns. Seriously, who uses those?? Good old REI.

So I tried it out this afternoon. Beautiful sunny day, I was bound to come upon someone to dingle, right? No. No one. Not a soul. Party poopers. I did meet up with one woman out walking her dogs, but she was facing in my direction and pulled herself and the dogs over in plenty of time. I almost wanted to pull a U-ie and pass her from behind just so I could do my ring-a-ding-ding thing.

Well, I'll be patient and sleep, perchance to ding.
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5 comments:

Whimsical Ranter said...

Awwwwwwww May you be able to ding before the urge leaves you.

pendoodles said...

Great bling! LOL

I'm gonna get a honker bling for my walker. I blinged it with jewels already that Rob says have to go if he's gonna walk next to me. LOL

I wanna honk till i'm horny! hehehe

Herb said...

I like the ah-ooga sounding horns but the ding-a-ling is quite fashionable and functional.

terri said...

You really didn't want the ah-ooga one? Think how funny it would be to have people thinking a Model T was cruising up behind them!

Paige said...

I would like the ah-ooga too.

I am also glad your bike has a name. BS is a serious biker, and he names him--Bikey is his mountain bike (although, really, he is Bikey II); Trixie is his triathlon bike, and he named my bike Biketta. I only know that becuase I heard him tell Bikey one day not to touch her on the rack, as Biketta had cooties