RUST magazine: RUST #44

Jocelin Snow
– Let me just explain something, if you
look through the doors, that’s my truck,
this is my cheque book, I’m gonna write
you a cheque, I want the bike. I would
like to add the BMW boxes, I want this
whole thing. Everything that I can get for
this bike, let’s do this.
And he laughed.
I left. I parked at a gas station and I had
that dry throat you know, like oh my god,
I’m gonna cry. So I got on my phone and
I looked up the next closest dealership
and I called them, I got through to the
sales manager and I asked – and I was
pretty choked up as you can imagine
– Do you have to 1200 GS Adventure
on your floor?
– Yes M’am, I do.
– Okay, please can I come and buy it?
Anyway, it was too late that day so
I went home and during the week
we arranged the price and the next
weekend, because I decided I was gonna
ride the motorcycle home, I took a lift
and walked into the store and they had
the red carpet out as they knew that I’d
had a bad experience. And they treated
me like a queen. I rolled out of that
showroom and headed home the scenic
way.
And here’s the thing. I stopped at this
little market on the way home for a
sandwich. There were no bikes around.
Kind of a quiet day. And all of a sudden,
another 1200GS Adventure rolled up.
And, and I was looking at this thing,
thinking what a coincidence, when I
realised it was a woman, a tall woman
with beautiful long dark hair, who was
getting off this bike. We talked and she
told me the town she lives in. I said,
– Oh, wow. You have no idea. I just
tried to buy a bike from the dealership
there.
She said – I did too.
She lives just three blocks from that
dealership and they wouldn’t sell her a
motorcycle either! We ride together now.
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