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on biking // 2004-06-12

i've discovered something even more delicious than veggie BLTs... veggie BLTs with egg! holy crap, that's good food.

i'm shoveling down the food because i just got back from a 42 mile bike ride. it was amazing. i had never biked up north past kenmore, and we followed the east lake sammamish trail for a while (which wasn't so crowded since it was early), and it reminded me of biking in brugges. it was such a perfect morning and the trail was surrounded by trees and this pretty stream was winding around next to us, and it felt good to bike so fast and so effortlessly... i don't know, something happened. i got elated and sad and thought all these ridiculous things that embarrass me now in retrospect. it could have been the acupuncture i had yesterday, or that fact that i'm mid-period, but who knows.

i was a skittish about getting on my bike this morning because i was a witness to the most horrific bike accident on tuesday. as i was leaving school and coming down the hill (which is clogged with traffic), i left a gap for a car coming in the opposite direction to make a left turn into a parking lot since we were stopped at a traffic light. little did i know that a bike was coming down the hill pretty fast and little did the bicyclist know that the car was making a left turn right in front of him. so, yeah, the bike went crashing into the car six feet in front of me, took off his side mirror and bashed in the car's front windshield. the bike went flying into the middle of the road, and the biker went flying so far forward i couldn't see where he landed. fortunately he was conscious and the injuries didn't seem to be critical, but he did look fucked up. someone quickly called 911 and me and heather (a friend from school who was right behind me and saw the whole thing, too) stuck around until the police came. when the cop showed up, heather and i talked to him, but he wasn't very interested in hearing the story. as i was explaining what i saw, he was saying things like, "so i bet that biker was coming pretty fast down the hill, right?" which, yeah, is generally true, but i think he was trying to blame the cyclist. he took my name and number, but he didn't seem interested in taking heather's information even though she kept offering, and even after i said that i didn't actually see the cyclist coming but that heather did.

jeannette, i totally hear you about cops being dicks about bicyclists. it seems like they only want to blame them for accidents, when really, they're just biking along and generally minding the rules until giant cars come along and smash them up.

and habbit, yes, biking does rule, and there's definitely a reason why we wear those skivvy spandex shorts.

summary: yay for veggie BLTs with egg and bicycling! and boo for asshole cops!

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