run on

the bathurst 7 was just about to pull away from the curb when out of nowhere appeared this spandex-clad twenty-something kid lugging a bmx beauty so the driver had to slam on the brakes and allow the dude to fasten his ride to the bike rack on the front of the vehicle but the x games wannabe didn't really know how to load up his motocross so the driver was forced to vacate his leather perch in order to assist the hapless pedaler and by the time the pair had succeeded in fastening the bicycle to the newly-minted rack three or four minutes had already passed which allowed me some time to ponder why any cyclist would ever rely upon mass transit as a means of transporting his/her wheels when the whole purpose of owning a bicycle is a desire to avoid the need for motorized transportation in the first place but i decided to give the sidewalk jockey the benefit of the doubt because after all he may have resorted to riding the red rocket that morning due to a debilitating injury or an extended commute or perhaps he had misplaced his helmet the day before but when the spandex king yanked the cord to signal a stop request just a few minutes later i must admit that i was a little perplexed given that the metropass-wielding daredevil had only employed the services of our local transit authority for a few hundred metres but it wasn't long before my confusion morphed into boundless contempt once our helmetless hero finally stepped off the vehicle and proceeded to climb aboard his oh so sweet ride for now of course my initial suspicions had been proven unfounded as the cycle boy was clearly not suffering from a debilitating injury nor was he apprehensive about pedaling without a helmet nor was this an extended commute and i suppose the long and the short of it is that in an imperfect world there will be always be occasions where bike owners make a mockery of our public transportation system by hitching a ride aboard a half-empty motorcoach even though their two-wheeled cargo could more than adequately perform the very same role. period.

whew.

teacher: "kids, today i'm gonna teach you how to compose a simple sentence."

(dubious grade 11 student refuses to take out her pencil)

teacher: "uh, why aren't you taking out your pencil?"

dubious grade 11 student: "sir, this is beneath me."

i remember it like it was yesterday