Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Training Wheels

Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day here in Fran Skamdisco.  I love riding my bike (though I accidentally typed “bile” first, which might be a Freudian thing, you’ll have to ask my mother); just this morning I put in 15 hard minutes on the stationary recumbent at the gym.  However, I have not actually gotten onto my real outside-on-the-streets bike in a very long time.  So tomorrow is a perfect opportunity for me to break that mold, non?  Eh, non.  Just as I’ve missed BTWD every year since I’ve had a chance to do it, I’m going to miss it again this year.  And I’ll probably continue to miss it in the future. 

And Why, you ask, am I always missing BTWD?  Here is my list of reasons I missed/will miss BTWD for an entire 11 year period of time:

2000: Forgot
2001: Allergies
2002: Flu-like symptoms
2003: Depressed
2004: Slept poorly
2005: Rainy weather
2006: On vacation
2007: Attending off-site conference
(2008: Feral dog scare)
(2009: Priapism)
(2010: No BTWD – hydrogen-cell vehicles have either solved the energy crisis, or blown up the freaking planet)

See you at the conference tomorrow.  I’ll be the one arriving in his hovercraft.