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Roderick
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# Posted: 26 Mar 06 14:50
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In all parts of the world, one of the most important things in social life are rules.
When we walk our dog, we might come across this 'written' rule:
Also lots of unwritten, conventional, rules exist. For example, most people in Utrecht know that one should always use two locks to make sure your bike stays where you left it if you put it on the grachten (along the canals) downtown. One to lock it on a horizontal bar of the railing and one to lock it on a vertical bar. Locks are not only to prevent someone else from stealing your bike; in Utrecht locks are also to keep drunk students from throwing your bike over the railing, leaving it hanging (if you used only one lock) or lying in the water (if you used no lock)...
(a bike of someone who did not know what most people in Utrecht do know...)
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nonkel duvel
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# Posted: 27 Mar 06 09:25
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héhé, funny story !
We did a test in Gent (a city with many students) a few years ago. My sister-in-law bought a new bicycle. Nobody wanted the old one. So we left old bicycle outside the house (against the wall), unlocked... After 45 minutes, the bicycle was disappeared. We were happy and the thief was happy...
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Bunny
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# Posted: 28 Mar 06 07:00
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funny story indeeed
my bicycle is over 20 years old, unlocked at the street i life and still there.... ok, no one takes such an old thing here. a new one would be gone in a few hours i think!
;-D
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