Hi Natty! How's it going? Are you enjoying your bike ride? You have strong feet, so I'm sure you enjoy those uphill climbs. My legs are messed up so I have to climb uphill on my back, like I'm pushing myself underneath a car. Damned Public Eye. I messed up my feet from working in the food business. You don't have to put up with that sort of distraction.
Oh what happened yesterday was that sundry shops were closed from the crossroads to downtown, about a 2 mile stretch North-South. I get my 20 liter water bottle refill at the closest sundry shop. They weren't the only one shut down, so I thought there was some plot going on to force me to drink sugar water and get diabetes. There was a plot, but not that. It turned out that they reopened after I got my water from a sundry shop further west. I guess they wanted someone else to get my patronage for once. The same thing happens at the night market, when some hawkers don't show up so others get the business. I suppose it's similar to the "song by some rapper featuring the chick singer and the rock star" that you find in the music business. I think they wanted me to get my water from somebody other than the one I went to but hey, tap water would be safe to use if I boiled it. It's better than traveling long distances with a heavy 20 liter bottle of water on my motorcycle.
Sundry shops are like miniature supermarkets around here. They sell pretty much everything you may need, some even have apparel and dine in. Not to be confused with convenience stores because the owners open and close whenever they feel like it, which makes them very inconvenient. Sundry shops have pretty much looked the same ever since I was a tiny kid, except nowadays they have coolers and sliced bread. You won't find many of them in the big city but out here in the backwoods, they're everywhere.
