I'm dirty

[SouthernBelle]

Sitting in the office not doing what I'm supposed to be. Wearing dress, heels, look down, forgot to scrub off my chain tat from last evening.

[Kimmyt]

Don't worry, you're not the only one... the other day I came into work. I hadn't even touched my bike that morning, because my boyfriend had very kindly loaded it into my car for me before I left for work. When I got in I noticed that I had bike grease up my arm, and all down my sweater. I didn't even touch my bike!

But that's okay, because about a year ago it was worse. I was sleepy and late for work, and I grabbed a pair of (what I thought were) clean khaki capris. About two hours later I noticed they were not my work capris, but my climbing capris, and as such had noticeable blackish stains all down the front and back from being worn so much out in the dirty outdoors.

My coworkers probably thought I was such a slob, but at that point what could I do???

[DebW]

I think the worst I've walked into the office was a couple weeks ago when I had to change a tire in the rain on a gravel roadside. My entire arms and legs were totally filthy. That was rivaled by the time I decided to go do trail maintenance on waterbars on a rainy day before work in the morning. I wanted to make sure that the waterbars were working in the rain! You can imagine what swing a mattuck in the mud does to ones legs. Luckily I was able to shower after arriving at work and making a quick trip to my office.

[hsmpcycle]

I think the worse thing that happened to my wardrobe and my body for that matter was when I was riding to school one day. I always rode my bike to class with no regard to the elements. One rainy morning, I decided to go ahead and ride to class. I wore some nice shorts, and a very good rain jacket that was very appropriate for riding. The rain was not heavy at all, but very misty. Once I got to campus, I had to make a very hard right hand turn. I totally forgot about the fact that the road was wet, so as I was making this smooth yet tight turn, my rear wheel gave out from underneath me. I hydroplaned aprox. 10 - 15 feet on my right side. I didn't notice a thing exept that there were a lot of students passing by me either laughing or just looking shocked, though one guy was very nice and picked up my bike asking if I was ok. I stood up and brushed myself off and thanked him for his concern and help.

Once in my German class, I sat down and noticed that I was wet all over and there was a huge nasty open wound that started from the top of my right knee all the way up to my buttock. It had to be at least 8 inches wide on my thigh and it was bleeding with pieces of asphalt lodged in it, but I had seen a lot worse. My professor finally came in and the first thing out of his mouth was, "Oh my g**, were you attacked by a dog?!"

I actually felt a little bit proud of the fact that I braved the weather and managed to get to class dispite the fact that I made a stupid bicycle error. At the end of the day, boy did it hurt riding back home after the wound started to scab.

[Bron]

Ouch, that had to hurt!

I think the worst I have managed was getting half-way though a ballet class and being asked by may teacher why I had a chain-ring tattoo on my pale pink ballet tights.....Oops! After that I started wearing black tights.

Bron

[SouthernBelle]

Ouch, that had to hurt!

I think the worst I have managed was getting half-way though a ballet class and being asked by may teacher why I had a chain-ring tattoo on my pale pink ballet tights.....Oops! After that I started wearing black tights.

Bron

I have this picture in my head of a delicate little ballerina, a la Swan Lake, en pointe, with a big old chain tat.