A’s bicycle’s saddle was falling apart. Instead of investing X amount of money and then later, when his current 2nd hand bicycle falls apart the rest of the way buy an entirely new one and leaving us with a useless extra saddle, we figured we’d buy him a new one now that just fits, and he could grow into it. An early birthday gift, so to speak.
That’s the theory, anyway. We bought a bicycle this afternoon that, at the store anyway, he could just about manage to get on, and ride fairly comfortable after that. Silly us. Once we got home, he had trouble getting on the thing and trouble getting off it without falling and hurting himself. Unhappy A.
So to solve this problem I decide to put the working saddle on the old bicycle. This greatly offends A, of course, and he now sounds like he thinks he’ll never get to use this new bicycle! But what can you do, he’ll be unhappy with the old one, and he’ll hurt himself with the new one, at least for another month or so. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that he’ll have grown enough before his birthday (which is in just over 2 months) so he won’t hold it against us if he still can’t ride it after it!
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