Birthdays

(Photo by Richard Boettcher)

Reading a book is the most dangerous thing you can do on a bicycle.

~ Carolyn Watson Dubisch

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Today is my birthday. This was me on, I think, my sixth birthday getting my bike. It was a good bike. Somehow I feel like the basket didn't last long on that bike, though. I was more interested in speed (thus aerodynamics) than in hauling things around. Also, I think I wore shoes most of the time when I rode it.

No helmet, though. Not back in the day. 

(pause)

Which might explain a few things.