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skirt caught in bicycle

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.07.07

This morning I spotted a young woman whose skirt had gotten caught in the rear gear assembly of her bicycle. I went home and returned with a pair of vice grips, and with a pair of fabric scissors. By sacrificing at 15cm x 5cm strip of cloth, she was soon free.

Incredibly, this is the second time I've done this in the past three years.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl