Pooks, Jeremy pretty much never worries about me -- he thinks I am a big stupid fraidy cat, basically -- but he does worry about me on the bike. I am planning to ride to the store and to run some errands today while he is out on a long ride, and he thought that was a bad idea because he'd be out on the bike and wouldn't be able to come help me if I needed it. (I think that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, and I am going to the store.)

He also does not think I should ride on the trail alone although other women do it. I tend to agree with him there, because he has had someone try to mug him on his bike, and the police just did this really dumb thing where they put up vehicle barriers on either side of the bike/pedestrian bridge that is the site where homeless people are the most aggressive (it's where someone tried to mug Jeremy). The barriers are to keep cars off, but they leave only enough room for one bike at a time to go through, and they make a great hiding spot for someone with bad intentions, and they leave you with no escape route if someone were to jump you there. It is the dumbest thing I've ever seen and it makes me feel very unsafe. I have never seen a car on that bridge but I have seen people walking around carrying hammers and crowbars, stepping in front of bikes, and letting their off-leash pitbulls interfere with bikes.

Anyway. My point is that he is far more fearful about me on a bike than he about me on foot -- he thinks I am silly to worry about walking home from work in the dark, for instance. I don't know what it's about, maybe it's because he has been hit by a car when he was doing nothing wrong and following all the best safety advice. But the bottom line is, he is not the boss of me, and at some point I make my own (occasionally dumb) decisions.