Some of the questions asked of me today in my new neighborhood…
Question (Response)
- Do you own this place? (Yes.)
- How much are you selling this stuff for? (Its not mine, so its free.)
- How old are you? (Shouldn’t you be in school?)
- Are you going to rent out the store front? (I received two proposals for a hair salon and a magic shop. If it had been a combined offer, I might have considered.)
- Are you a single lady? (I don’t recall having a conjoined twin.)
- Do you have any work for me? (Do you have any work for me?)
Filed under: Bicycles, Missouri, St. Louis, Transit | Tags: Bicycles, Missouri, St. Louis, Transit
We bike guys (I owned one, before I started looking like a bear in a circus when I rode it) own the high moral ground. Never mind that we don’t pay gasoline taxes to build roads. We don’t pollute. We are close to nature. Our lungs are pure, our calves are firm, we look good in day-glo Spandex, and we have the same right to the roads as you.
And Reilly’s response:
My word, this portly pundit has shown his penchant for gross generalizations and… the firm calves of cyclists. But with respect to the former, the rotund writer fails to acknowledge the other 85 percent of cyclists who fall outside his stereotypical misconception: children riding to school, adults commuting to work, underserved populations with no transportation alternatives, etc.
I wonder if cyclists stereotype newspaper columnists as grumpy, overweight, old white men with an ax to grind with this radical, changing world.
The only thing I would add is that bicyclist are not just guys. We’re also gals.
Meghan, Samantha and Me: Bike Gals
Filed under: Missouri, Pop Culture | Tags: Birthday, Mark Twain, Missouri, Samuel Clemens
Happy Birthday Samuel Clemens (AKA Mark Twain)!
My favorite Twain Quote:
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
Share you favorite quote from this great, American author in the comments below.
