Forever tainted
hehehe I said “taint.”
It was beautiful out today, so I rode my bike down to the Fenway and embarked upon a trail known as the “Emerald Necklace.” however, because I have the mentality of a 12-year-old boy, I can’t get the name straight in my head, and am always thinking it’s the “Pearl Necklace,” and then I giggle insanely to myself.
Anyway, it was nice, so I cycled around Arnold Arboretum for a while. However, I grew weary of dodging all the clueless people with baby buggies and didn’t get all the way to Franklin Park. It’s amazing– people with baby buggies always think they have the right of way, no matter what. They could jaywalk across a 4-lane highway at rush hour and still get all pissed off and indignant if a car came within 20 feet of them. I especially love the ones with the pimped-out 2-seater jogging strollers with off-road tires and hydraulics and tinted windows and… whatever else that probably cost like 5x the price of my car. The moms and dads of these babies figure since they dropped a grand on a vehicle that their kid will outgrow in a couple of years (or not, as a lot of moms had 5 year olds stuffed into the buggies), they have the right to hog the sidewalks as much as they want and give as many dirty looks to whoever invades their ample baby buggy personal space. If you don’t want to irritate any of your wealthy neighbors, keep at least 5 feet away from them on all sides at all times. Invading their space just makes them walk slower in order to better glare at you.
Besides the pedestrian dodging (many pedestrians insist upon walking on the bike path– around Jamaica Pond, there are 2 paths, clearly marked for walkers and one for bikes), my ride was pretty nice. Bike riding is awesome! remind me to get my back wheel rack fixed, though. The hardware that secures it to the frame in one spot fell off, so it’s being held in place with a bungee cord and some heavy-duty zip ties. This is fine, but sucks for heavy groceries like multiple juice jugs (cranberry juice was wicked on sale, OK?).
heheh I said “jugs.”
