Pointless Prize – Bicycle #Bingo

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  • #1132522
    AlanA
    Participant

    I know the game is over, but I just happened to see this cool old yellow car and took a picture of it.

    #1132529
    cvcalhoun
    Participant

    @alana, duly noted for purposes of the game #2 spreadsheet, even though it won’t make any difference to the outcome.

    #1132534
    Kbikeva
    Participant

    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. 🙂

     

    #1132535
    cvcalhoun
    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?  🤣

    #1132548
    AlanA
    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.

    #1132561
    cvcalhoun
    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. 🤣

    #1132582
    bigredboiler
    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!

    #1132583
    cvcalhoun
    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.

    #1132586
    LhasaCM
    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”…

    #1132588
    CBGanimal
    Participant

    2/23/24 Shop (ice cream)

    #1132598

    @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!

    #1132604
    LhasaCM
    Participant

    Thanks!  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…

    #1132623
    DCAKen
    Participant

    2/23/24 Shop (ice cream)

    #1132630
    Laurie E.
    Participant

    2/23/24 #bingo – ice cream shop

    #1132636
    Indiana
    Participant

    2/23 ice cream shop, Navy Yard #withkidSnowy

    Recommend the seasonal flavor matcha green tea strawberry

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