So...I have been riding my bike faithfully 4 days a week to work (unless its pissing outside to the point where biking might be painful/cold from the drops of hell). Now....last I mentioned that I got up the "HILL"....but it was not graceful. Well it's almost been two months....and I am still not graceful. Much better though (down to 1 *** a day...except Fridays when I work at Brewsters...it's a social thing . Anyway....I could not understand for the life of me why ppl were sitting on their bikes passing me. I mean....At one point I have no other choice but to do the standing leg grind. Then ZOOM another F*er sitting passing me. Well...I am going home the other day and I am going up the 3 tier field (after the big hill....I lack juice to get up this field) and the fact that it is so steep at some points that I usually giv'er a good run and then stall halfway up the hill....get-off and walker the rest of the way. WELL....the other day.....I'm groovin and sweatin and stall halfway up the hill....and then *swoosh* some biker I almost killed cause he wasnt expecting me to stall (and I had my mp3 player on and didn't hear him). So I did the "I'm Sorry!"'s and being the nice guy he was...says;
"Gear down. You will just cruise up the hill"
I give him the "look". The look consists of a blank stare that washes over my face and then the scrunch of pessimistic eyebrows and nose flare as a sarcastic remark floods through my head and says "Uh....do you not see I am on my LOWEST gear.....duh guy".
"Um.....okay?" (he can see the panic in my eyes)
"Turn that one upwards....you will get another set of gears." (refering to my right gear switch)
"Um.....okay?" And off he goes.
Well....BY GOLLY! Did you know that if you actually turn that right gear....You have MORE gears. LOWER gears!!!!!!! So my legs are spinning like a gerbal on a wheel and I'm givin'er up the next two tiers...........SITTING!!!!!!
I get to the top and "guy" is far ahead of me...but I still extended my appreciation with a big "THANK YOU!!!!" down the neighbourhool street.

That's a lot of typing to tell you how dumb I am. So...basically I have been peddling up this hard ass hill on a middle gear and basically nearly giving myself a mild hear attack. Just kidding...it's not that bad....I actually might prefer it.....burns the F out my legs...and shapes the butt!