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Old 07-19-12 | 06:48 PM
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From: Greenwood Indiana

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Today was my weirdest ride ever. It was pretty windy so I wasnt exactly flying. Within a mile of my office I had a pick up truck fight me for my lane, he got it but I explained how brilliant he is to him. According to his plates he was from the sticks in southern Indiana so he probably wasnt used to city traffic. I took off and forgot about it. Then less than a mile further on I came up to a parking garage. A car was pulling out, stopped and appeared to be waiting for me to pass. I was watching it and was in my bike lane, but that car looked like it might pull out, just had a feeling. A guy on the side walk walked out in front of her so I relaxed and started pedaling again. She took off, blasted the guy walking, I guess she just did not see him or me. He jumped up on the hood and bounced off, he did not fall down but walked/staggered off. I was right in front of her as he bounced off the hood, if it hadnt been him and I wasnt watching her for sure she would have hit me. Anyway, the guy walked off at least till I could not see him in my rear view anymore. Ok cool, 2 miles and it has already been a mildly eventful ride home. Then on the next corner the light turned red as I pulled up to it, so I stopped. There were two guys and a woman in dress clothes. Very conservative dressed except her skirt was a bit short but she still looked appropriately dressed to be an attorney in one of the offices in the area. Well the walked to the corner and turned to cross the next street, the wind blew, I dont know how to say this exactly, but her skirt could have been a kite. I am not sure if she had anything undre it or not, but it was very pleasant, she didnt even act like she knew she was mooning the world. But it was nice. The light changed and it was ride or get run over. Darn. The rest of the ride there was a lot of motorist on motorist stuff. Our local Johnson's heating and air conditioning guy was riding the bumper of the car in front of him and honking and yelling and stuff at it. Another driver followed someone else into a gas station yelling and stuff too. But the really really weird think was just shy of the half way mark. It is a two lane with wide well marked bike lane. The road has a lot of traffic and but is pretty safe, long and straight. About .5 mile (or so) off I see a bike in my lane headed toward me. It drives me nuts when people do this, the bike lanes even have little arrows telling them which way to go. Anyway I see him quite a ways off, as we got closer I realized it was a very small bike, like a haro bike or something. I thought dang a kid, well at least that is why he is in my lane. As we drew closer it was a very very small bike, like a smaller child. I was thinking damn, that kid is just too little to be on this road and was debating on how to get and keep the kid off the road without scaring him. I did not have to think about it long, a little bit closer I realized the kid was about 40. Probably the littlest adult I have ever seen. But I had to be very close to realize it. Full beard, bad attitude looking face and stuff, but seemed to fit pretty well on a small childs bike. It really was a pretty nice ride, just different.
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