an observation of the forum as a metaphor

[duncan303]

Wow thanks guys for taking the time to read this, I have had soo much fun with it, I cut some dialogue out in the middle between the apprentice and the young man because I was concerned the piece might be too long.

Hi steveB

He had already made up his mind that the pump was the problem and HIS Bike was perfectly fine. No amount of evidence or polite objection was going to change that.

Secondly, to bring his bike back would actually create more work for him. He was only looking for the quick fix to his problem

Absolutely these are symptomatic of the young man’s character, his apparent inability to read the problem, blindness to physical evidence (he watches the apprentice perform the ritual of demonstrating the pump throughout the shop). I agree also about the physical work that would be involved in taking the bicycle to the shop, but as a direct metaphor it is not effort that prevents him. On the next level of interpretation his next move would be to take the wheel off, and that would be too much work for him. He might well do that next time, especially now he his fairly convinced that the pump is ok. Neither the shopkeeper nor the apprentice attempted to convey what the possible true fault was, this is very important because they were not asked to solve the flat tyre. In fact, in this, the shopkeeper deliberately acquiesces and says, “…bring your Faulty Pump in together with the bicycle”.


Skimask, I guessed you would be unable to resist this

For the first reason:

It'sa stolena bikah?

I probably wouldn’t put it quite as strongly as that, in the first and second interpretation, the bike indeed does not belong to him, the clue being in the first line “the bike he is using”, stolen infers that the bike has been forcibly and deliberately taken without the express or implied permission of the true owner, consider a person who does not actively prevent their bike being used. ( I realise that should be covered by implied permission, but consider you place your unprotected bike in a part of town where it is well known that all the other bikes are used municipally: except you do not know… have you not then “lost your sole rights to the bike”? In the sense that the person who took it is using it in good faith)

Oh Hell yes. the first reason is that the bike is stolen

[sayzer]

....Oh Hell yes. the first reason is that the bike is stolen

...and the second reason is that,

because the pump now works, he does not need to come back or bring the bike to anywhere else. He can just pump the tyre.

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[duncan303]

...and the second reason is that,

because the pump now works, he does not need to come back or bring the bike to anywhere else. He can just pump the tyre.

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well he has simply comfirmed that the pump works, he has yet to discover if it is a puncture, faulty valve, or somebody deliberately letting his trye down

[mackrackit]

Duncan,
This is good!!! Touches on profiling that Trent goes off about.

Being that you left this metaphor in a public place...I hope you do not mind if I use it myself.

[duncan303]

Duncan,

Being that you left this metaphor in a public place...I hope you do not mind if I use it myself.

Brilliant you got it