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“Wanna Dink?” How a Rickety Second-Hand Bike Taught Us the True Meaning of Trust
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And it’s those nearest and dearest to us who we trust most of all.
Yet when was the all-important bedrock of trust first laid?
For those aged enough to know what an 8-track cartridge player was, the foundations of trust began decades ago with the invoking of the phrase: “Wanna dink?”
For those too young to know what an 8-track was, to dink was to ride as a passenger on a bicycle expressly designed not for that purpose.
Bikes for girls didn’t have the benefit of a crossbar, so dinking usually saw the dinkee balanced precariously on the handlebars, yelling out directions to the dinker whose forward field of vision was mostly blocked.