I try to live by one of my favorite mottos: Never do unto others anything you wouldn't want done to you.

That was the case today as I almost bought a bicycle off Craigslist, down near Huntsville, AL. Talked to a nice old guy who bought this three-wheeled thing for his wife, who said it was too fast. Tomorrow seemed like a good day to drive there, so I said I would drop by around 1300 to check it out. This is an hour and a half drive, mind you.

Later on I got to thinking about the reality of owning a bike right now, especially one with three wheels, and talked myself out of it. Besides, it's going to be raining its ass off tomorrow anyway.

The moral of this story is that I went strongly out of my way to let the guy know I was bailing, via text and finally a phone call. Otherwise he would be putting off another possible sale because I agreed to look at it first.

He was very appreciative, and we parted as new acquaintances. He said his ancesters were here back in the settlement of this area. So were mine.

A lot of people just brush other people off in these situations, very sad.