Montag, 16. April 2007

a double malfunction

On the 12th april the telephone-repair-man was here. The malfunktion should have been already repaired. The malfunktions were : not possible to phone me, could not hear messages, had to dial the number of the city when phoning within the city, and at the end once an echo-effect ( my voice repeated with a delay, but not as loud as on the 8th march ).
The first repair was at one of these grey boxes outside, there were cables overlapping. The second one also, the cable from there to the house. Seemed both malfunctions had effect on only my phone( the repairer didn't know about others complaints ). But not on going online with internet.

In the evening, when i was outside with my bicycle one street from here, when the sidestreet meets the bigger street, i had to brake because i've seen a woman lately, she was standing on the street behind a short but high trailer/hanger with awning, the only point where i could not see her, moving her bicycle slightly for- and back, just to make a little light. While i had no light. This could have been a funny accident. But was not dramatically, because of my nice brakes.

On the 13th on one way i passed two discrete sniffers, both joggers, making the noise at the same intensity, the second was wearing a bright orange t-shirt.
The next time outside ( just a few minutes) i've seen the black dressed lefty from the 8th again, on his way to a near record-shop.
Later there was a well-trained man with a new bright-orange hooded shirt who looked at me, leaning his head to the side.
After midnight there were two men at the streetcrossing here, speaking a few words.
On said something like "he takes LSD", the they laughed, then they separated, the one coughed, sounded like he was importend now.

On the 14th there was a bald shaved man in shorts who, before i passed him, toched the point of his nose with his hand (near the wrist ), while looking at some people sitting outside (pub/cafe)as if whe was greeting soeone( but no one reacted ).
On my way back, parallel to this, one street further, i passed a man demonstratively wiped below his nose with his finger and making a sniffing noise while he looked at me. He had shorter darker hair, black t-shirt&sunglasses, tattooed lower arms.
An other time there were two women, a younger and an older one, who both pointed at their nostril at the same way, only a discrete gesture, but both at the same distance to me and same timing, few streets apart from each other.
This had been the basic gesture for many years, but i think this was the first time i've seen it this year.
The next time i was outside someone, sitting on his bicycle, breathes at me when i passed him, as if would be doing a physical exercise, the moment when i came from street to pavement, low curb. The next streetcrossing, when i turned, a woman on a bicycle, similar sunglasses as the man, stopped me for no reason, seemed to be fun, too. Later on that way two sniffers, the second one shaved bald, long chin-beard, hand in hand with his girlfriend.

On the 15th there was a slower woman on a bicycle in front of me, before i could pass her two men with professional street-bicycles came to my side, one passed me to set next to the woman, then driving at her speed, saying " the look...-street( streetname), let's look, they have changing articles here" ( "wechselndes Angebot", hatte nichts auf ) and then turning in front of me, so i had to brake. He, sunglassed, looked at me "i did not see you", -few seconds after passing me.
And two other streetbiker, who seemed to be from them, because of exposed position/timing/new cycle( on also this way, rthe other way back).
At the evening i was (again) at my absent parents to feed the cat. I was watching tv at night, when someone, standing in the garden behind the house, threw a tiny stone against the window, just to make a noise.
On my way back on a bigger street a man on a bicycle crossed my way, he slowed down, i corrected my way, but then he stopped in the middle of the street, for no reason, so i bypassed him widely (no cars near).

This have been the very most of them, these days.

There has already been a bicycle-theme last year, when i started to buy parts. Some people liked to pose with their cycles, often with new black ones, mostly mtb's.
Sometimes they like to use cars, driving centipede for example.
They often used silver-colourd ones, often new with that star( especially in 02 ).
The most exclusive car they used was an oldtimer, from the 30ties, maybe 40ties.
When i stepped out of the house it started the motor with a prominent gurgling suck, had waited down the one-way street ( in the middle, not parking as the others ), now slowly came up towards me, forward the wrong direction.
It had a gigantic hood, was open-topped, the body was of metallic anthracite colour, any other metal was chromed. Anything polished, newer than the first day.
There was only the driver sitting in it, when he came closer he abruptly turned his head towards me, accentuating the mechanical style of that movement with a jiggle at the end, as if he woud have a spring in his neck.
This was on the 19th august last year, at 2:15 p.m .