A small present for a 56 year old beginner. Any suggestions?

[Arrowfoot]

Thank you to all the parishioners who have given me advice. I never realised that wanting to give a small token to a medic was such a minefield of etiquette.
From the little I know, she has just started to wobble about. She never expressed an interest in becoming a militant lycra warrior or going far from home. Anyway, thanks to all who have posted.
BTW, I gave the nurses of the High Dependency Unit at Hammersmith Hospital a big box of chocolates on the anniversary of my operation, for ten years after the event. I must be a very bad person.

Looks like you took the comments badly - small token, militant lycra warrior, high dependency unit, 10 years after, big box, bad person etc. Thats pretty loaded.

Relax, it was addressing your original post of giving one particular nurse a gift that you had become familiar with over routine appointments to encourage her in cycling. If you said you were coming out of life threatening operation and wanted to show your appreciation with a box of chocolates to nurses as a group, it's a wholly different thing.

 

[slowmotion]

Looks like you took the comments badly - small token, militant lycra warrior, high dependency unit, 10 years after, big box, bad person etc. Thats pretty loaded.

Relax, it was addressing your original post of giving one particular nurse a gift that you had become familiar with over routine appointments to encourage her in cycling. If you said you were coming out of life threatening operation and wanted to show your appreciation with a box of chocolates to nurses as a group, it's a wholly different thing.

Brilliant precis...but what's your point exactly? All I wanted was a suggestion for a trivial gift.

I asked for a suggestion for a simple cycling gift. That's all. Lord knows, diamond necklaces are a whole lot easier.

 

[Arrowfoot]

Brilliant precis...but what's your point exactly?

Imagine turning up with a bell and being told that it is inappropriate.I found the comments helpful to avoid looking like a daffodil. I raised it as I sensed the bile.

 

[slowmotion]

@Arrowfoot, old bean, you have entirely lost me.

 

[fair weather cyclist]

For God's sake, all I was thinking about was a multitool or a repair kit. Why do so many people want to turn it into some kind of ethical dilemma?

What do you expect from this forum?

 

[Cycleops]

For God's sake, all I was thinking about was a multitool or a repair kit. Why do so many people want to turn it into some kind of ethical dilemma?

That’s the ‘meat and potatoes’ of CycleChat

 

[Fredo76]

The bell seems like it's the best idea to me. Beautiful, safety-related, and only twenty pounds, not extravagant.

I say go for it.

 

[Reynard]

In this case, a chocolate bicycle is better than a chocolate teapot. And yes, a quick google shows that there are loads of places that do assorted bicycular chocolates.

Now to persuade my best mate to buy *ME* one for my birthday...

 

[monkers]

I'd suggest keeping the value under £10 in value. How about the Beryl Burton DVD? I think that could be seen as a token but thoughtful gift and she might find it inspirational.

 

[fair weather cyclist]

I'd suggest keeping the value under £10 in value. How about the Beryl Burton DVD? I think that could be seen as a token but thoughtful gift and she might find it inspirational.

Dvd?

Where do you live...2005?

 

[monkers]

Dvd?

Where do you live...2005?

Nah ... 1984

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Dvd?

Where do you live...2005?

There were LP sales over 5 million in UK in 2021. Where do you live 1922?

 

[fair weather cyclist]

LP came back in fashion 20 something years after they were sent into oblivion by more modern technology.

So yeah, op, buy her a dvd; she'll be enjoying it if and when they come back in fashion...in 2040

 

[Brandane]

For God's sake, all I was thinking about was a multitool or a repair kit. Why do so many people want to turn it into some kind of ethical dilemma?

Your big mistake, IMHO, was to ask for an opinion on this forum. You've been around long enough to know that it's a strange church. I gave up long ago taking anything seriously in here. Too many extreme opinions about everything. Treat as light entertainment only to protect your sanity!

 

[slowmotion]

I've settled on a bike bell. I don't think its value is great enough to put the lady in such an awkward position that she feels obliged to slip me a few thousand doses of fentanyl for me to sell on the Dark Web.