How Was Your Commute Today?

[pfunk12]

Ginny - I thought about that after the fact. I was assaulted by a pedestrian who was walking for their health. So weird. I would imagine that you have to be pretty skilled and alert to maneuver around people on campus.

If you punch someone, isn't that called 'assault'? WTF? That is just amazingly inappropriate! Yesterday, I was riding through campus (slowly as it was between classes), and there was this guy in his 50's or so absolutely meandering through people.... I kept trying to go around him one way and then the other... finally, I just went between him and someone else. No one was touched - he was about 1 step from me when I made my speedy little move... and he hollared after me 'hey' ... 'hey'? Dude! Learn to walk in a crowd! BTW, it's perfectly acceptable for me to be riding where I was; there are dismount zones on campus, but I was not in one. It's weird how there are a few people who just don't know how to move in a crowd - and it's amazing how difficult that makes it get around them!

[ginny]

pfunk - for a long time, I did a lot of... shall we say... unplanned dismounts and/or nearly falling over my handlebars to stop on campus. I have become much better at navigating through people texting and chewing gum/walking at the same time

[tangentgirl]

Wow, pfunk, that is wild. Good for you for not beating her down like you were on the jerry springer show.

My commute today was uneventful, as I drove my car, but my bike commute yesterday had more roadblocks - some of them literal - than I am used to. Sand, tons of it, on my regular path. Then the other path I take was closed, probably because we have had rainstorms lately and it's along a wash, but still. I ended up having to jump on a semi-freeway stretch of road to get to work.

Somehow, it was still nicer than driving. Go fig.

[pfunk12]

I may not have beat her down, tangentgirl, but my mouth made me sound like a guest on the Jerry Springer show.

Wow, pfunk, that is wild. Good for you for not beating her down like you were on the jerry springer show.

[tangentgirl]

Sometimes that is just *#@!^%& necessary.

[Tri Girl]

holy crap- you got punched?

My worst commute isn't anywhere NEAR that insane-o. What a nut. Next time she might just get run over and maybe then she'll look up while walking on a HUGE sidewalk (I lived in DC and am pretty sure I know where you're talking about). DUDE!

[Melalvai]

I wasn't going to share my commute, as it was uneventful, but after these crazy stories, I think you might like to hear of a pleasant, uneventful commute.

My mom & daughter wrote a book together, had it printed and gave copies to everyone for christmas. Yesterday, I thought "I'd like to do that with her." My daughter loves dystopias (she's 14), so I suggested it to her: I'll write the point of view of the Establishment and she'll write the point of view of the Rebellion. She loves it. She added that it is a magic world, where magic users are downtrodden and disenfranchised.

I spent my commute, both ways, thinking out my part of the story.