I woke up in the tent around 7:30 a.m. At 8:00 a.m.I jumped on a virtual call with a friend who wanted business advice about working with somebody with an addiction counseling company. At 9:00 a.m. while I was on the call finishing up the conversation I heard a man’s voice yelling from the tent area. He was saying that he saw the bikes, and we have to be out of here in an hour or he’s calling the cops. I figured it was a graveyard worker who saw that I put the bikes in the little clearing behind the graveyard. I usually hide my bike but because me and my girl were riding around at night, and she wasn’t in the best of moods, I decided to just leave them against the tree.
My girlfriend was still sleeping so I had to wake her up. She was not happy that we had to pack up shop. He did though and we got it done in under an hour everything packed up.
My girlfriend and I decided to take a ride down the street in my little car with the bikes on back. You parked near the trail that leads to the beach, and we wrote our bikes over to the Sandy getaway. I went swimming but she didn’t. There was nobody there. It was quiet and screwed and we enjoyed the serenity together.
Around noon I rode the bikes back to my little car. I left one bike chained to a telephone pole. And I drove my girlfriend back to her car so she could pick up her son.
I drove to the house of the man who was selling a mountain bike for $40. The bike was in bad condition. I bought it with the plan to take it to a bike shop to be fixed. I found a bike shop that looked like a small business on Google and went there. The owner, Brett, was a really nice guy. I told him that the bike was for a homeless man that was doing good and is in recovery. Brett told me he himself is in recovery and gave me a deal to fix the bike. He asked for $75 and said he’d do it for $50. I ended up giving him $60 because I know it’s hard as a small business owner.
When this was all said and done it was almost 4:00 p.m. I drove to my girlfriend’s apartment. I talked to my friend Chris while I was driving. He was saying how his young boys are always on their tablets and if it wasn’t for him bringing them to do stuff like sports they’d never leave the house. This helped me realize how fast we are moving away from prosocial behavior to antisocial behavior. Isolation through absorption into our devices stunts social learning from interacting with people face to face.