My First Cyclo-Commute to Work...
 

This morning I decided to ride to work. I've been thinking about it for a while, I even bought myself a killer commuter ride (see link in sig line). I rode to work without incident. I didnt cover my face or ears so my lungs and inner ears ached from the cold air but the rest of me was all sweaty becasue those insulated coveralls are a little wamer than I expected. I got to work and booted my computter to find this email from my wife:

So I waited until a coworker showed up and borrowed his car to go let her in.

I guess worse things have happened but I just hated to have issues on my very first commute. My employer provides a company car so I believe they will have no sympathy for the special situations that can occur when you cyclo-commute. Their answer will be "just drive the car that we gave you and it won't be a problem".

Just thought I'd share my story. I hope to start riding in at least once a week, maybe more.

My wife used to lock her keys in her car all the time. One time she called me at work on deadline (I was a newspaper reporter at the time) and wanted me to come open her car. So I drive all the way to the grocery story where she was shopping, open her door, and the key wasn't in the ignition. Turns out she had dropped it in the parking lot, and somebody turned it into the office. I now tell her to call AAA when she locks herself out of her car; we get our money's worth out of our membership. BTW, I've been known to lock my keys in my truck (very rarely) but I keep a spare key in my wallet, so it doesn't matter.

Oh yeah, keep up the good work on bike commuting. Occasionally things will come up to make it inconvenient, but in balance you will be glad you do it. When I started bike commuting, my plan was to ride one day a week, on dress-down Fridays. Now I'm riding 4-5 days/week. It's habit forming.

Funny tee-hee story!

Wait.. what do you use as an e-mail client that your mail looks like that?

Heh, it's always something :) Thanks for the story, and good luck with your future bike commutes!