8 reasons I will never use white vinegar for eating purposes again.

When extreme boredom sinks in due to the local festivals and no work for two weeks, one must find new hobbies to stay sane. This festival holiday I decided I had three goals, cook some recipes I´ve been wanting to try out, finally get on that bike I bought a year ago and is now home to spider webs in the corner, and try out some of the home remedies in our peace corps cookbook.
In between a lot of procrastinating, I finally starting all three of my goals for the week. Yesterday I decided to bake homemade biscotti, something my grandma always did. I successfully made two batches: one cranberry chocolate and one raisin walnut. Not quite grandma´s, but it was a first attempt. Today I started my day by killing the spiders on my bike and in my helmet and got air in the tires. Getting the bike clean was at least one step towards actually riding it. (I never was one to ride a bike, and only recently really learned. Here I got on my bike once, got scared by the vicious street dogs and have said for 7 months that this week will be the week I get on it again).
After cleaning my bike, I opened up that home remedy book and did my ¨festival¨ cleaning. I continued cleaning for hours, every time looking at that bike, thinking do I really want to go on it today? I could just envision myself peddling down the road, drunk men riding their motorcycles by me on one side and dogs chasing me on the other side.
Opening that home remedy section of my book I learned one thing for sure, I will never use white vinegar for eating purposes again. I had no idea you could use white vinegar in so many ways, but now I don’t want to imagine it in my stomach.
The many uses of white vinegar for the day include: mixing white vinegar and bleach to scrub mold off my walls, bolting white vinegar with water to get mold out of clothes, mixing white vinegar, water, and chopped garlic to wipe down counters (it helps kill and prevent ants), and soaking white vinegar, salt, and hot water together to get rid of coffee stains on cups. Who knew there were so many uses for white vinegar? And I´ve only done a few of the home remedies, apparently it can also be used as a deodorant, window cleaner, a copper and brass cleaner, and gets paint off windows.
After cleaning everything possible to clean with vinegar and realizing there was nothing else to do to procrastinate, I stood outside strarring intimitdely at my bike for a good 20 minutes. Twice I pushed it towards the door, and twice I left it there. Finally after an hour longer of putting it off I pushed that bike out the front door, and walked it down the road. And I kept walking it for another 10 minutes. Once I got to a section of the road where I knew there were no dogs, I finally got the courage to get on that bike and start peddling. Turns out it really wasn’t as intimidating as I thought it would be, and only parts of my envision came true, a guy did pass me on his motorcycle while the guy sitting on the moto with him was drinking an open beer, and as I got about 2km down the road two dogs that I know from bad experiences are vicious were in the road, so I turned back. I can now say all three of my goals for this festival break were accomplished, and there are no broken bones, oven burns, or dog bites to show for it!