The Air is better in the City

Pete is no good with mechanics of any sort. Far from it. Not long ago he moved to a house outside the city. In real nice surroundings with fields and woods. And he bought himself a new fancy bicycle.

He noticed, however, that the back tyre was loosing air. He pumped it, although it took him some time to figure out how to do it as the valve was of a new type where you had to loosen part of the valve to get air into the inner tube. It kept loosing air, however, and he had to use the pump every day.

He decided that the tube must have been punctured and decided to have it repaired. There was a bicycle shop in the village, but he checked the price of a repair, and found that it was much more expensive than in the small repair shop in the city where he used to live.

 

He loaded the bicycle in the car and drove into the city. The guy in the repair shop checked the tyre and smiled. "You have to tighten the valve after pumping", he said, and showed him how to do it. "If not the tyre will loose air." He then pumped the tyre, and Pete drove the long way back to his new home in the countryside.

 

Me and my Uncle Jack visited him some days later, and he told us the story. Later the same day some other friends arrived to see the new house. Pete was showing us around, and the city friends were impressed with all the green stuff and the cows in the fields and the silence and all the rest. So much better than in the City.

 

Uncle Jack was listening. A smile came on his face. "But the air is better in the City", he said and told the story of Pete's bicycle and the trip to the repair shop.

Everyone was amused - except one.