Last week I took my cruiser to the grocery store. I bought a few too many groceries to fit comfortably in the basket, and I hadn't brought my backpack with me. So I loaded up the basket as well as I could and headed for home. As I was crossing the highway, my coil lock (which I'd foolishly placed on top of the groceries to try to keep them from falling out) tumbled out of the basket and into the middle of the westbound 2 lanes. Fortunately, it was 6:30 AM on a Saturday morning and there wasn't much traffic.
I parked my bike in the median near the left turn lane and ran to retrieve the lock. When I returned and tried to repack it into the top-heavy basket, the bike nearly toppled over. Meanwhile, cars are slowing down to make left turns and people are staring at me. Hopefully, I'm not in someone's "Funny Fat Lady" YouTube video.
