La Bicicleta

Today I sold my car. I had it for two years. Didn’t drive it all that much only about 20k miles total. I was definitely paranoid it was going to leave me stranded all the time. And it did once. But it broke several times and I always limped it home. I sold it to a guy who was very excited about it. Now he can worry about it’s quirks. Maybe it’s because I understand how cars work that I was paranoid about it breaking. Now I am free of that fear of being stranded. For some reason it just never seemed solid to me. All my other cars I’ve owned did feel solid. Even if they also broke down, I just trusted them more. Farewell my old friend.

Now, today was the first day I rode my bike to work. It took me 19 minutes door to door. Not bad considering I had to wait for 3 lights and the SEL hill is brutal. Holy crap my blood was pumping so hard when I finally got off the bike my legs were jello. The way home is going to be cake, but the commute to work is sure to make my legs soooo strong. I almost got destroyed by a huge splash of water coming from a car driving through a puddle on the road. I told myself I was gonna take the bike trail to avoid that but I was excited, forgetful, and just took the side walk path. I’ve now driven to and from SEL close to100 times and never once did it click in my head that the bridge I drive over was so tall. It made me a bit startled when the ground fell away so quickly as I drove over the bridge. I know for a fact no one in my building rides to work because there isn’t even a bike rack for this building, at least one I can see from my quick loop around the building. I don’t have a bike lock yet anyway tho. I need to get one this weekend. Also the brakes on the bike are toast. Need new ones cuz these do not work in the rain at all. Other than that a bike isn’t going to break on me and leave me stranded like my car might’ve. It’s not like everyday I was in constant fear of my car exploding on me. But it did cross my mind every once and awhile.

Stay livin’