Originally Posted by duuuuuude
I'm a first grade teacher and I ride my bike to work every day. I even lock it up with the kids on the bike racks! Everyone at school thinks I'm crazy, but it doesn't matter. I've never had issues (knock on wood) while others have...other teachers have had flat tires, run out of gas, dead batteries, etc...who's laughing now?
Anyway, a fellow 1st grade teacher's car is in the shop, so he rode his bike to work. He actually enjoyed it and couldn't stop talking about how free and relaxing it was to ride in versus driving a car. Today, he said he wanted to just keep riding and not even come in to work. He's ridden it the past two days, but we'll see if he keeps it up after next week (car's out of commission for at least a week)...I've already offered to clean up his bike and get it running smooth again...
Anyway, I ended up riding with him towards his house yesterday so I could get some extra time in the saddle and we ended up chatting about all kinds of stuff. Ended up getting to know more about him, which is something we would have never been able to do if we drove to work in our cages.
Hey, good for you for being a challenge to the car-addicted conventional wisdom. I posted this before, but it relates well here: A few weeks ago colleague #1 was telling me about how he had to borrow his fathers car to ride 1.5 miles to work because his was in the shop. A few minutes later colleague #2 brings up in conversation that I have been cyclocommuting. Colleague #1's response?: "Why the hell would you do that?"
