All the messengers in Providence wear caps instead of helmets. Admittedly, with their tats and piercings and simple single gears they look pretty hip. But then I think, how hip will they look in the brain injury ward with tubes sticking out of them?

I rode a bike for years without a helmet. I remember when my daughter was like, a year old - her in the back in a kid seat, with a helmet on. Me with four bags of groceries on the handlebars, no helmet.

Who am I to judge? I wear a helmet now. But I'm older and more askeered.