So my sweet, clueless co-worker, who smokes, never exercises and drives her car everywhere, and thinks it looks "terribly dangerous" for me to ride my bike to work, looked at me today and said, as a compliment: "Wow, you must have a really high metabolism!" She's my age, unfit but just slightly pudgy.

I try to downplay how much I ride when talking to people who don't exercise at all, partly because I don't enjoy being viewed as a freak and partly because you don't need to ride that much to get benefits from regular exercise. I just really like to ride my bike . So I answered: "yeah, well, I bike a lot you know. But part of it is hereditary I think".

"Ohhh, riight. *sigh* Gee, it's so unfair!" she replies, and goes back to her work.

Uh.... yeah. Guess I should have worked in the part about spending 2 hours a day on my bike anyway.