Would you park a Gazelle...

[Geonz]

Here's my quandary.
A nice man has asked me to see a show. Obviously the question "What should I WEAR?????" has sprung to me, especially since I am utterly the queen of casual... almost all of my skirts are denim and ankle length, and usually I'm wearing Dockers, though the man in question has mostly seen me in sweats, riding my bike. I am hoping it is in my best interests to display a different side whilst remaining true to myself.
An obvious solution is to dress up and ride that beautiful Gazelle. That woudl mean, however, parking it .... on... campus.... It's a college campus. People have had baskets stolen from their bicycles. Most stuff parked outside is the stuff of Big Box stores. (Yea, I think I'm talking myself out of it... I should have the courage to dress up and not have to have it be silly, eh?) Yet, I'd have a good lock... (and I"m paying $400 fo rthis thing... it's not as if it's a $2000 bike, and most people are not even going to recognize what it is!) I also saw it or its clone parked in exactly that neighborhood on a Friday night couple of years ago (which is when I fell in love with it), and obviously it didn't get ripped off then.
Of course if I don't ride it, I'd ride something else... which woudl mean I couldn't really dress up ... tho' it's also close enough to walk.


... update edit... well, the question still stands hypothetically, but he's picking me up (we have seen a movie but we met in the middle and he had *not* asked me to go; he'd told me I'd love the movie and I asked him, but of course we had to because I was riding my bike and going from work... but, still, hypothetically speaking...