The One With the Snowshoes
You know you're young and living in the city when...
...You spend your entire bike ride home cursing at pedestrians and thinking violent thoughts involving snowshoes.
Or is that just me?
*Backstory: I bike to and from work. It keeps me active and energetic and allows me to boil off most forms of road rage before I get into settings with other people. I'll add that this road rage doesn't just extend to pedestrians (and certainly not all pedestrians, just the ones who don't look where they're going when they're walking, oh, IN THE BIKE LANE), it also extends to other bikers and drivers (and really, only folks who are unaware of what they're doing. Oddly enough, I can forgive purposely breaking the rules as long as people realize who they are or aren't inconveniencing).
Part of my job recently has been to deliver silent auction items. Someone won a pair of snowshoes (I'm kind of jealous. Everyone kind of laughs when they hear about snowshoes, but I recall having fun snowshoeing at Lake Tahoe back in the day. Anyway) and I decided to deliver them via bike. However, the combination of snowshoes and thinking violent thoughts at ignorant pedestrians/bikers, and cars ("Ima smack you upside the head with some vigilante snowshoe law and order" is the phrase, I believe, to which my old housemate says: "Law and Order, Snowshoe Vigilante Unit (SVU)") could lead to bad (or AWESOME) occurrences.
There was another fun aspect of young city life, but I've now forgotten what it is...perhaps the $6 goulash we ate in Park Slope last night?
See? I told you I only write in this journal after 2am...
O hai 2010 Echoing Green Fellows. Echoing Green supports social entrepreneurs.
Sadly, one of the former Echoing Green Fellows, David Lewis, was murdered recently. He was the founder of Free at Last, an organization working with recovering addicts in East Palo Alto. Such a shame. Interestingly, he was murdered at Hillsdale Shopping Center in upscale San Mateo, not in East Palo Alto, his hometown and the former murder capital of the US. :'(
...You spend your entire bike ride home cursing at pedestrians and thinking violent thoughts involving snowshoes.
Or is that just me?
*Backstory: I bike to and from work. It keeps me active and energetic and allows me to boil off most forms of road rage before I get into settings with other people. I'll add that this road rage doesn't just extend to pedestrians (and certainly not all pedestrians, just the ones who don't look where they're going when they're walking, oh, IN THE BIKE LANE), it also extends to other bikers and drivers (and really, only folks who are unaware of what they're doing. Oddly enough, I can forgive purposely breaking the rules as long as people realize who they are or aren't inconveniencing).
Part of my job recently has been to deliver silent auction items. Someone won a pair of snowshoes (I'm kind of jealous. Everyone kind of laughs when they hear about snowshoes, but I recall having fun snowshoeing at Lake Tahoe back in the day. Anyway) and I decided to deliver them via bike. However, the combination of snowshoes and thinking violent thoughts at ignorant pedestrians/bikers, and cars ("Ima smack you upside the head with some vigilante snowshoe law and order" is the phrase, I believe, to which my old housemate says: "Law and Order, Snowshoe Vigilante Unit (SVU)") could lead to bad (or AWESOME) occurrences.
There was another fun aspect of young city life, but I've now forgotten what it is...perhaps the $6 goulash we ate in Park Slope last night?
See? I told you I only write in this journal after 2am...
O hai 2010 Echoing Green Fellows. Echoing Green supports social entrepreneurs.
Sadly, one of the former Echoing Green Fellows, David Lewis, was murdered recently. He was the founder of Free at Last, an organization working with recovering addicts in East Palo Alto. Such a shame. Interestingly, he was murdered at Hillsdale Shopping Center in upscale San Mateo, not in East Palo Alto, his hometown and the former murder capital of the US. :'(