Jana the Brave.

Hilarious email from Jana to me describing her trip with Makai to the only bike store in Tel Aviv with a padded bike seat for Makai's new balance bike.

By the way for context, Florentine is an industrial neighborhood of Tel Aviv.  We live in Neve Tzedek, a historical and yuppy-ish neighborhood next to Florentine.

Anyways, the things moms do for their kids.  Enjoy.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jana Leon Guerrero <scottiewinsjana@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Subject:
To: scott nguyen <pacolee@gmail.com>

we had an interesting time picking up the seat from florentine.  it was 40nis.  anyways, so i call and he said go to kfar giladi and its at the corner of derek jaffo above a moroccan store.  go inside to floor 3.  so we bike over there.  i get there and it smells like urine. nasty.  i walk into the door which leads to a run down hallway.  there are men, pissing with their penis's hanging out.  they all look drunk.  this apt/store complex looked like something you would find in malaysia at a slum.  makai says mommie, carry me please.  so i carry him, his helmet, his new puzzles, his new train transformer, his pillow, and my bag.   i went to floor 3 not thinking that it is really floor 4 in america and its a bathroom where once again, people are pissing and high as ever, needles on the floor.  so i walk out as quickly, trying not to look freaked out.   i really wanted to take photos but couldn't.  maks had a good hold of me.

so i get downstairs and  i call him back.  he says oh yes i am here and this guy from the moroccan store comes out and says oh you're looking for the bike shop?  yes.  let me take you i own it.  its my son's shop. he says go to the top floor.  i said i was at the bathroom, he goes oh no, not there.  that's no good.  people are on drugs there. top floor.  i was like, "fine, not one other place has the seat." everyone ignored us and i kept my sunglasses on.   i get up stairs and there are a bunch of 20 year olds smoking weed in a bike/skate shop.  i look around and i think oh great.  makai gets down and says "hi"...  jumps up and down and says "my shoes light up! see see!  my shoes light up!"  one guy says WOW that's Rad!  i am thinking ok these guys seem completely harmless and this is something cool to show those who are high.  so they ask where i am from and how long i am here and where i live.  i said i live in florentine. been here for 2 years.  they then wanted us to go to the skate park with them.  they were on there way after they finished their beers. the son of the guy who owned the place started yelling at them and one guy laughed and said oh, we are not suppose to act like this so we need to clean up our beers for customers.  i said no worries, we came for a balance bike seat so we won't be long.  they then opened a map and told me how to get to the skate park and hoped to see us there.  they can teach makai some tricks.  

as we get back down to the first floor there are more people pissing and dicks hanging out.  i swear it was something out of a movie.