School started - get ready to die !!!
08-28-07 | 08:14 AM
#26
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One speed: FAST !
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From: Ft. Lauderdale FL
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As long as gas is available, parents will always have an excuse to drive their kids to school because "it is much safer than walking or riding a bicycle" ...
at least - thats what the car makers want us to think !
at least - thats what the car makers want us to think !
08-28-07 | 09:45 AM
#27
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From: South Jersey
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Can I brag? I live in a South Jersey suburb of Philadelphia. My wife and our 9-year old son ride their bikes about a 1/2 mile or so to his school every day. In fact, it was their example that encouraged me last year to get a new commuter bike and start riding my bike to work, instead of taking the train.
(Although I admit that our 13-year-old daughter often resists riding her bike to school because her helmet "messes up" her hair.)
(Although I admit that our 13-year-old daughter often resists riding her bike to school because her helmet "messes up" her hair.)
08-28-07 | 10:12 AM
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From: New York
I've been thinking about what I'll do if I'm ever knocked to the ground. I think I'll stay down awhile. Maybe lay there and wait for the cops. Even if I'm not hurt bad. There are a couple reasons for this. First, I want them to be worried longer about how much damage they did. Second, I think sometimes the adrenalin masks the pain and you don't always realize how hurt you are.
I hope you never get hit, and if you do, I hope you are well enough to make the decisions that need to be made (like insisting the bike comes with me in the ambulance and then into the ER!!!).
08-28-07 | 10:31 AM
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I have a rather unique twist on this problem. For my half commute, I park in a commuter lot about 13 miles from work, and ride in. The problem is that the commuter lot in question is 100 yards from the high school, and there aren't enough spots for the spoiled rich kids, um, I mean little darlings to park at the high school, so they take up all the spots at the commuter lot, then carpool the 100 yards to school. So if I don't get to that lot by 6:50, I can't ride in at all.
08-28-07 | 10:57 AM
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1. Teens driving to school like a bat out of hell
2. Moms driving kids to school like a bat out of hell
3. School buses driving kids to school like an 8000lb blind bat out of hell
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey
08-28-07 | 12:38 PM
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From: Boston, MA, USA
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08-28-07 | 01:13 PM
#32
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From: Boston (sort of)
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I have a rather unique twist on this problem. For my half commute, I park in a commuter lot about 13 miles from work, and ride in. The problem is that the commuter lot in question is 100 yards from the high school, and there aren't enough spots for the spoiled rich kids, um, I mean little darlings to park at the high school, so they take up all the spots at the commuter lot, then carpool the 100 yards to school. So if I don't get to that lot by 6:50, I can't ride in at all.
09-03-07 | 01:22 AM
#35
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From: New Brunswick, NJ
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I would love to start a petition at my University to raise gas prices to $10 a gallon, to close half the streets in the city surrounding the school to motor vehicles, and to lay such heavy fines on motorists that don't obey the law that they are forced into financial bankruptcy, to go along with their moral and ethical bankruptcy.
Ah yes, dodging minivans, drugged-up nutjobs on old Huffys, and cokehead hipsters on 48x14s...this is truly going to be a wonderful final semester in college...I just hope I can make it to graduation without winding up in the hospital again...
Ah yes, dodging minivans, drugged-up nutjobs on old Huffys, and cokehead hipsters on 48x14s...this is truly going to be a wonderful final semester in college...I just hope I can make it to graduation without winding up in the hospital again...
