There is still hope to our society

…This might sound very dramatic, but the experience the other day

made a big impression on me, so I had to start on that note.

I did a –I thought- a very normal thing when I sent an email to a rent-a-bike company in Amsterdam

about a possible abandoned bike in our street. I was staring that pure, lonely, good-looking red bike

down across the street for about a month now, and I had to take action. I just sent an email to the

company saying; you should look into this and this serial number, you may realize that you miss one

of your two-wheelers. And what happened next blew me away. The nice lady-let’s call her

Veronique- replied within hours that she will look into it and it was very nice of me that I had

reported the bicycle, and in return she would like to offer me a T-shirt. I was like…wait a minute, you

haven’t even picked up the bike yet, you cannot be certain that it is true on the first place. You don’t

even know whether I am just a impostor, who is living out of sending random emails to companies

saying nice things to get stuff for free in return of the unexpected kindness… is this serious?

And it was indeed…she was just simply nice, and eventhough she wasn’t able to figure out which bike

it was and the purpose of it is standing there so long…My beutiful T-shirt landed the very next day in

my mailbox, the text on it: „ Brains travel on bikes”. Which made it even more special. Not

mentioning the hand-written note next to it. She definitely made my day, week, maybe my whole

month…a little small kindness for an even smaller thoughtfulness.

Let’s talk about me and my first but not last biking experiance in the Netherlands in an other topic,

shell we?

P.S.: I am still in contact with the nice lady…and the bike is nowhere to be found.

P.S.S: I turned out that they picked it up within days.

maple & tulip