Gingerly But Optimistic Post

   Soon after I discovered Steemit, it  was clear to me , that right thing to do would be to put some seed into this fertile soil - to invest some money. Right time for that seemed to be after 4 July , to check in when others might start to check out.

 

   However one problem remained. How could I explain that to my friends and relatives ?  They are very conservative when money matters, to invest money into something you can't hold in your hands ... I know what they will be thinking : "now, Vasily got trapped by some sect, they will rip him off, after that he will start to try to get some money from us..."  Ok, I do exaggerate a bit, but the main line of thoughts would be like that.

     

  Then one idea came to my mind. I have a bicycle, but some problems with it had to be fixed. It so happened, that every time I prepared my tools to fix it - the rain started. So it just stood there.

    

   If I sell it, and invest money in Steemit, it will not look so bad. I could say: "look, itis just old bicycle I don't need anymore . I will not sale my car. I will not sale my home." My reputation  would probably survive )

    

So, I decided, next weekend I'll do that.

     

    And then I started to contemplate.

   We all know this story about Bitcoin Pizza Guy. Why not yet another story about Steem Bicycle Guy ?  About some guy who sold his bicycle, bought some Steem, and one day found out that he is millionaire ?  - Yes, I would like to get that role )

   Then I tried to be reasonable. " look, what about all those people who already have much more Steem Power then you ?  There must be hundreds ore even thousands of them ? "  But it did not help - " Ok, they going to be billionaires then, who cares!" )

   So, last Saturday I made an announcement on local website and on Sunday the bicycle was gone.

    

       This transaction brought me 3300 rubles ( about 50 $) . That was an easy part.

  Now I had to get some Bitcoin for it.  It might be different at other parts of the world, but here it have a distinct flavor of doing something illegal. The dealers on LocalBitcoin making such strange looking conditions for a deal...

Thanks to @hipster who wrote and published a very play-by-play manual, other ways I would probably give up.

  

   I've got about 0.08 Bitcoin. To convert it to Steem Power now. Done.

   That was about 70 Steem Power - half of what I've been expecting to get, and at that moment I started to realize that long contemplating is probably not always beneficial )

   Anyway, let's discuss the case after a few years )   

   Maybe we can work it out after all   )