Pointless Prize – Bicycle #Bingo
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February 22, 2024 at 2:57 pm #1132529
cvcalhoun
Participant@alana, duly noted for purposes of the game #2 spreadsheet, even though it won’t make any difference to the outcome.
February 22, 2024 at 3:46 pm #1132534Kbikeva
Participant4 shops on my card, not a one of them is for ice cream. Just between us though, I’m going to pretend it is and seek out a specialty ice cream place tomorrow anyway. Just because. 🙂
February 22, 2024 at 3:49 pm #1132535cvcalhoun
Participant@kbikeva wrote:
4 shops on my card, not a one of them is for ice cream. Just between us though, I’m going to pretend it is and seek out a specialty ice cream place tomorrow anyway. Just because. 🙂
I’m sure you are also interpreting the rules as requiring that you sample the products of that place. I didn’t actually see that in the rules, but who am I to contradict? 🤣
February 22, 2024 at 7:01 pm #1132548AlanA
Participant@kbikeva – I’m ‘playing’ two cards and don’t have an ice cream shop! However, usually I enjoy my ice cream at home. I have an ice cream cone just about every night. Mint Chocolate Chip (the white stuff, not the phony green stuff).
@cvcalhoun – I know the game is over. I even told myself not to go by my ‘usual’ yellow car. I just happened to see this old ‘relic’ (which was also a scavhunt). I remember nonsense like that. I still look for mailboxes becuase of this dumb challenge. And don’t even get me started about all those flags out there. It’s nuts.February 22, 2024 at 9:51 pm #1132561cvcalhoun
Participant@alana wrote:
And don’t even get me started about all those flags out there. It’s nuts.
Tell me about it! I have found myself rating countries by how obvious they make their flags. People’s Republic of China: Large, front and center, 5 stars. Suriname, up on the fourth floor (so you can’t get there outside of business hours) with no flag outside the building: 0 stars. 🤣
February 23, 2024 at 1:37 am #1132582bigredboiler
Participant@AlanA & @cvcalhoun, glad you’re enjoying these reindeer games! I stopped my ride today to take a pic of an analog clock, even though I knew the game was already over….my OCD I guess 🙂 The real challenge is finding new fire stations each day within cycling radius…Equinox can’t get here fast enough!
February 23, 2024 at 3:26 am #1132583cvcalhoun
Participant@bigredboiler wrote:
@AlanA & @cvcalhoun, glad you’re enjoying these reindeer games! I stopped my ride today to take a pic of an analog clock, even though I knew the game was already over….my OCD I guess 🙂 The real challenge is finding new fire stations each day within cycling radius…Equinox can’t get here fast enough!
Yeah, I decided to skip #fire, because I figured there was no way I was going to find a fire station for each day of Freezing Saddles. And besides, I’m already looking for #scavhunt, #publicartfinder, #flag, and #fever every day, plus exploring new routes for Wandrer, and I didn’t really want to have to find anything else.
At least I’m not doing #420 this year! Maryland last year had only medical cannabis dispensaries, and there weren’t many of them. In DC, in theory it’s illegal to sell cannabis at all, so the dispensaries either have no signage at all or have signage that says things like, “District Glass Company” (real example), and those didn’t count. I felt like an addict as I frantically searched for the day’s drugs!
And I’m eager for DST. I work from home, so I don’t have a commute in which to see sunlight. Typically it’s already dark by the time I finish work. So I end up never seeing the sun except on weekends.
February 23, 2024 at 8:42 am #1132586LhasaCM
Participant@cvcalhoun wrote:
Yeah, I decided to skip #fire, because I figured there was no way I was going to find a fire station for each day of Freezing Saddles. And besides, I’m already looking for #scavhunt, #publicartfinder, #flag, and #fever every day, plus exploring new routes for Wandrer, and I didn’t really want to have to find anything else.
Whereas I’ve decided to make #fire my whole “reason for being” this year’s FS. What started as a fun little “oh, let’s try to visit all the DC stations during Freezing Saddles” is now the sole focus of almost all of my riding. And since @AlanA is a kind arbiter and allowed my “former fire station” submissions, in a classic sunk cost fallacy, I’m in too deep and have to keep going. As I learned last night, there are still a dozen fire stations within 10 miles of home that I have not yet visited (so that leaves only 13 I have to visit that are beyond that).
At least it’s made #PublicArtFinder and #bingo something to do “on the way”…
February 23, 2024 at 9:47 am #1132588CBGanimal
Participant2/23/24 Shop (ice cream)
February 23, 2024 at 11:44 am #1132598karenbikes2@gmail.com
Participant@LhasaCM wrote:
At least it’s made #PublicArtFinder and #bingo something to do “on the way”…
For someone who’s just casually playing #publicartfinder, you’re doing quite well!
February 23, 2024 at 12:11 pm #1132604LhasaCM
ParticipantThanks! The fire station hunt is pushing me to places I normally wouldn’t go, which is making it easier to find “new to me” public art, so that has been a positive side effect to the obsession…
February 23, 2024 at 7:50 pm #1132623DCAKen
Participant2/23/24 Shop (ice cream)
February 23, 2024 at 9:00 pm #1132630Laurie E.
Participant2/23/24 #bingo – ice cream shop
February 23, 2024 at 9:27 pm #1132636Indiana
Participant2/23 ice cream shop, Navy Yard #withkidSnowy
Recommend the seasonal flavor matcha green tea strawberry
February 23, 2024 at 9:28 pm #1132637cvcalhoun
ParticipantFebruary 24 – Sign (with pic of bike). This means a sign that has a pic of a bike on it, not a picture that includes a random sign and also your bike. However, the sign cannot be a bike route sign or a share the road sign, since those are separate items.
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