It's nice that so many people have contributed intelligent, witty and useful responses to my 1st post here.
Day 2 off the bike and still no saddle craving yet, but I did do some grocery shopping after work. When I walked out of the store it felt surreal that there was no bike to go to, no rear rack to drop the bags into, no key to put into the U lock, nothing to do except... keep walking.
Plus a couple of funny things showing that maybe it hasn't sunk in yet that I'm not on my bike anymore:
- not sure if I should walk on the street or the sidewalk. My feet want to go where my bike has rolled hundreds of times
- looking up from my reading and doing visual checks, the same way I do when on a bike, darting my head this way and that, and finding it slightly disorienting how stationary everything is, that the scenery isn't whipping past me
Sooner or later I'll get another bike, but if I don't get it sooner I worry if I'll ever be the same again lol.