Wow, you make me sound like a real ogre. Did you read the part about them blocking the path? Anyway. I'm moving on to another encounter yesterday.

I love to see kids on my rides, the younger the better. A long time ago my Grandpa taught me not to distract them. They may be concentrating on steering and that's important to let them do. But sometimes they are just so cute. There is a place where a convenient path cuts diagonally through a street grid which is popular. It's a good shortcut to the local library and gets a lot of use. I was riding South, on a slight uphill when I came upon a very young girl riding north (downhill) following a woman on one of those long tail bikes. The girl was on one of those pedal-less bikes and seemed to be doing fine going down the hill. I did say "nice bike" as I passed and we all went on our way.

An hour or so later after eating my lunch at a local park I started for home. These days that park is very busy what with a swimming pool and various camp activities. There were a couple school busses blocking my sight line as I exited the parking lot so I pushed a bit forward into the lane to see around them. Here comes that same woman going uphill now with the girl seated on the back and her bike strapped on too. I said "look who's working now" and got a nice smile. Warmed my heart.