Geezer with a Grudge: Pure Kid's Bike

Aug 17, 2011

Pure Kid's Bike

For those of you with money to burn:
Date: 2011-08-12, 3:42PM CDT

Reply to: sale-ykmtw-2543698219@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
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i have a 1992 kitana bike for sale with no title not sure were it is bike do run cluctch is out bike have been droped farins is off bike but i still have them all this here not sure how much i want but shoot me a number thanks 763..291...7073 greg

[Thanks for the warning, Paul.]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: What is it with craigslist posters? The typical vehicle listing is missing some critical piece of information, like the year, the mileage, or the price. Some listings sound like pure come-ons from criminals: bring cash only to find out the price! Then at the end it will say something like, "No title. This is a legit deal. Cash only. No scammers."; 8/18/11, 3:32 PM
Paul Compton said...: Doc's strip pretty much nailed it I think...

http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1206.html; 8/19/11, 5:36 AM
T.W. Day said...: Wow! If only I could perform like that in real life.; 8/19/11, 7:53 AM
Erik R said...: I shop MPLS Craigslist almost every day. I don't know why I bother though. I have responded to listings for bikes I was interested in, and never got a reply. Why bother putting up an ad if you wont answer?; 9/28/11, 8:49 AM

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.