I ride my bike a lot. It's my main way of transportation and I do rely on my bike a lot for driving my 3yo around.

My bike is getting a history of getting flats a lot and it's a pretty big pain in the butt.

I have a partner, my partner has 3 kids from his ex-marriage (we are not married, but we've been together for 9 years). We've had joint accounts until 2 years ago because I was paying for everything that should have never been my responsibility and after years of begging, I decided it was enough.

So our neighbor is a garage-bike-mechanic, which is absolutely convenient, and I have good contact with him and he fixes for a very friendly price often even for free.

He's my go-to guy when I have a bike to fix.

Now a few months ago, My eldest stepson had a flat tire as his bike had sat still on the school ground for about a year and my partner decided that he would send in all bikes for maintenance.

So he did. When the maintenance was done, the price kinda shook me but I let it go because I figured it was 5 bikes, it wasn't unreasonably high (though higher than his usual rate, I didn't question it). When it came to paying our neighbor, my partner was always forgetting.. I asked him like 5 times if he'd paid our neighbor yet and he'd say he forgot (he had picked up the bikes but forgot money) so I started getting embarrassed and went ahead and paid our neighbor from my personal account. While I'm there he tells me my bike was fine and he really didn't do anything to it, except for checking it, so he didn't charge me for it. My neighbor also told me that my partner had told him I would go around to pay him. I was like 🤔🤔🤔 but acted like that was the plan all along and left it at that because they were mainly the kids' bikes and I want them to be safe (not my kids but my kids by heart).

So now my bike had a flat tire again this week and that was truly an issue because our kid had to go to school and I basically had to carry him there.

So I asked my neighbor if he could temporarily fix it and on long term I want full tires (airless) because I can't afford to not have a bike because it's ran flat again. (Like I said, it's my main way of transportation, I am learning to drive the car, but I don't have a permit yet)

So I'm over there picking up my bike from the temp. fix and we're both scrolling through google finding good airless tires that have the right specifics and we are chatting about bikes and tires and whatever and at one point he comes across wider tires that he aparantly placed on my partner's bike upon his request even though they were more expensive.. and I'm here going you motherfluker... going out making special requests on my bill.. that's just a preference thing too, like he doesn't need wider tires other than he thinks they look cool, he drives his bike like 10 minutes per week all on asphalt roads.

I had already assumed his lie for "forgetting" the bill because aparantly he had already told the neighbor I would pay him, I especially feel taken advantage of because he aparantly also ran up the bill for no *valid* reason.

and I am 5'6, my partner is 6'5, I tried but there's no way in hell I can even manage to get onto his bike.