Adventures of a New Commuter: Look What You're Missing!
Posted by Anthony Taylor Saturday, June 26, 2010
Adventures of a New Commuter documents the bike commuting travels of an overweight, over-enthusiastic and overly creative fellow. This journal isn’t always presented in chronological order, but should be entertaining and occasionally informative.
If you weren’t commuting with me to work today, and most of you weren’t, here’s what you missed:
- When did it become ok to exercise in your underwear? As I was crossing Ashlan heading north on Van Ness, a girl and her boyfriend were waiting to cross south. He was wearing basketball shorts and a t-shirt. She was wearing her chonies and a sports bra. I mean, they were like boy cut shorts, but they looked suspiciously like lingerie.
- I passed through a parade of morning walkers, bike cruisers and dog walkers just past Ashlan. I actually had to weave through some interesting traffic. The walkers were walking down the middle of the opposite traveling lane and the dog walkers weren’t walking the dogs so much as…strolling them. In baby strollers. Pretty adorable actually.
- Guy mowing grass in front of an office building just north of Herndon on Palm…the smell of the cut grass was distinctly garlicky.
A good day to be commuting my friends…get out there and ride your bike to work once a week to start. Look at what you’re missing!
