noon not only to offer up his cooking skills in preparing a platter of veggie burgers during the event, but to wrench on bikes as well. Chance showed up again to help out, as well as our buddy Mickey, who jumped right in when he noticed that the line for bike repair seemed endless with more and more people showing up. We had a few firsts this particular afternoon—we were not only donated a huge tray of food, but 32 cold beers for our efforts. After a women asked if we drank beer and I responded, “Not right now,” she came back with a bag of beers, with another neighbor handing over a case of bottles later, to which we greatly looked forward to enjoying after we were “off the clock.” Another first was that we were learning quickly that we had to know how to say “No.” Even with six mechanics working non-stop all afternoon we simply could not serve everyone. We cleaned up and closed the bus and headed to David’s house to enjoy our donations as well as to see a amazing view of the entire city of Philadelphia from his rooftop. Another day complete.
