UFR: My bike

[muckefuck]

Walking down my street through the cold drizzle this morning, I became aware of a crinkling sound behind me. It sounded like the noise that nylon pants might make, so I assumed that someone was lagging a few paces behind me and ignored it. Then I heard someone ask me a question. I turned around to see a nine year-old kid in windbreaker and sweatpants and said, "What?"

"Where yo bike at?" he asked again through a wide toothy grin.

"I don't have a bike," I told him. He looked back at me a little confused and I hurried on to catch the train. Mistaken identity?

Comments

[nibadi.livejournal.com]

"he asked through a wide toothy grin" ... ich wünschte, mir fielen im Englischen auch solche hübschen Formulierungen ein.

Denkst du, er halluzinierte "dein" Fahrrad? So extrem "frühkindliche" Psychosen sind äußerst selten.

[welcomerain.livejournal.com]

My thoughts were in this order:
1) Do you speak ENGLISH?
2) Why do you CARE? Were you planning on STEALING muckefuck's bike? It's not as if he could give you a RIDE.
3) How could you POSSIBLY mistake muckefuck for anyone else?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

One possibility that occurred to me was that he or someone he knew had played a prank on my Doppelgänger and hidden his bike. But he seemed so guileless, I abandoned the idea almost immediately.