Bicicleta Rota

So I jynxed myself with that post last night. I said my bicycle would break on me one of these days, and of course, it breaks this morning!

I'm riding along casually and suddenly the pedal just falls right off the crank. It's completely stripped and loose and I have no idea if a part is missing or what. Anyway, I shoved it into a taxi without agreeing a price, and he then tells me a way extorted price, and takes me to the wrong Calle Tamayo (the one people actually know about). Then I have to tell him he took me the wrong way, and he yells at me for the 10 minute drive to the other one, repeating a hundred times how stupid I am and how he asked if it was the Calle Tamayo by the school and I didn't answer him. I sort of felt bad, but I told him to stop when he was going the wrong way, and he just said, no, no, I know where I am going. Fortunately I only had just enough coins in my pocket to pay him, or he would have tried to snatch everything else he could have, lol.

The total investment on this bike, with the several taxi rides included, already equals what I would have paid for a functioning bike on sale at La Victoria...ouch.