How do they do it - Student Riders!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Hey, who knew bikes are supposed to stop at stop signs? I had no idea; never saw anybody do it.

Pam

Pam you are scaring me. I hope you are just kidding! For your own safety, please obey traffic laws while riding in traffic!

[PamNY]

Pam you are scaring me. I hope you are just kidding! For your own safety, please obey traffic laws while riding in traffic!

Sorry -- that was meant to be a wry comment about bikers in general. Seriously, on the bike path, I pull over as far as possible when I stop because you risk being mowed down by other bikers if you actually stop when no cars are coming.

Pam

[OakLeaf]

I remember being like that when I was a kid. Ah to be young again. I stopped riding below freezing after I fell on some black ice and wrapped my front wheel around my fork... but my rule for running used to be long sleeves below freezing, tights and gloves below 0°F, didn't even own a hat that I remember.

[beccaB]

My son is 6'2" and almost never wears a jacket. He wears t-shirts all the time. He only weighs 140 so there's no meat on him. It was 15 degrees below zero here today. He wore a sweatshirt.

[Tuckervill]

My 15 yo son is like that, too. I MAKE him take a jacket wherever we go, just in case we break down or something and have to walk a long way (better safe than sorry). It is a constant struggle to even get him to TAKE a jacket, but in his more cooperative moments he grabs one without a reminder, even though he has no intention of wearing it.

Everywhere he goes in the cold weather, people are asking him where his jacket is. You think the annoyance of that alone would be enough to get him to wear one, but nope.

I have noticed he does wear shoes and socks more often than he used to, though.

Karen

[Crankin]

I stopped fighting with the kids (12-13 yr. olds) about wearing coats when we went outside about 5 years ago.
I don't get it, either. I was not "warmer" as a kid. Yesterday, when it was about 13 out, I went to the dentist, near my kid's old HS. While everyone I saw was wearing a jacket, some of them had on what I would consider to be a spring jacket, none had gloves, or hats on as they spilled out of the Starbucks.
And I also don't understand some of the riders and runners I see wearing shorts when it's 50, 40, or 30. Last week I saw 2 runners in my neighborhood in shorts. It was around 25 out and their legs were bright red. While I definitely have developed more of a tolerance for cold, the more I ride, I have to wear tights when it's less than 55, maybe 52. Between 55-65 I can do knee warmers or knickers.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I also suspect that most teenagers and young people run around in the freezing cold without gloves, hats, or jackets simply because they keep LOSING them.

DH's son used to keep telling us his stuff was 'stolen'. Replacements were purchased. After 2 winter coats were "stolen" in succession, further interrogation revealed that he actually LEFT the coats hanging over some fence in the baseball field or at the park, and then when he went back to get them like two days later they were gone....thus, "stolen".

I suspect when they go off to college there is a period of time during which they are astonished when replacements don't 'magically' appear...and eventually (when they run out of clothes) they stop shedding apparel like autumn leaves everywhere they go.

[silver]

I have noticed he does wear shoes and socks more often than he used to, though.

Karen

LOL!!!

[Aint Doody]

Do y'all think some of it has to do with "fashion"? I remember seeing a young woman in flip flops walking through slushy snow in our downtown area when flip flops were absolutely the only footwear the younger set would wear. My niece got married that same year in Jan. When she told my sister that she planned to wear flip flops with her wedding dress, my sister replied that she'd better get a stand in for mother-of-the-bride as she would not attend. My niece wore ballet slippers as a compromise!