My loots were the 60 strawberry-poppyseed cupcakes I made for the county school bus shop where I work, with orange juice, and chocolate milk. The orange juice was for the morning, and the chocolate milk that afternoon. I forgot the frosting to add to the cupcakes for afternoon snacking, but it didn't seem to matter. All but 8 were eaten.
My efforts managed to get 5 new people to bike to work over the course of a week. We have 3 regularish commuters counting me, then we had an older male driver bike in for both am and pm routes on Monday, a female driver with a heart condition rode in Monday afternoon and I rode home with her, and we had another male driver ride in Monday afternoon. I ended up getting driven from my coworker's house to mine because my bike went flat in her driveway while I admired her backyard birds, and my "roadside" patch job failed.
Tuesday morning we had a driver who serviced my same elementary school ride in, when originally he had claimed that he would not ride at all.
The younger guy driver from Monday returned Wednesday afternoon as well.
Thursday I rode home with our other female commuter. Almost home, she went to a nearby yard sale actually, where we went our separate ways.
And finally Friday afternoon an old woman driver managed to pedal to work.
I took the leftover cupcakes and beverages to the train car along the bike path where I see a group of people meet regularly for breakfast. The person I was supposed to give them to wasn't there, but a cyclist on his way home from work had a cupcake and thanked me.
I was really surprised that I could carry all that stuff to work- it fit perfectly. The cupcake trays were all in my rack-mounted plastic crate, and the jugs of drink were in plastic bags tied up through the bottom of the crate hanging on both sides- the rack and fender stays kept them off the rear spokes. Just lowering the weight that little bit- from in the crate to under it- made my bike handle SO much better that I think my next sewing project after this million-pocket jacket for my husband will be a set of panniers for my Zoomie.
Anyway, happy bike-to-work-day!