tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post3608173332753121379..comments2024-02-16T04:11:30.642-05:00Comments on Tales From The Sharrows: Ride Home 12/12Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post-46487049721867471972011-12-13T14:06:25.094-05:002011-12-13T14:06:25.094-05:00Brian - just lookin' out for your best interes...Brian - just lookin' out for your best interest: I mean, how are you going to be mobbed by fans at Stanton park when they are all massing at Seaton Park? (no, I never knew that triangle had a name before either).Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556327472591149962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post-17678929222685419912011-12-13T12:29:12.896-05:002011-12-13T12:29:12.896-05:00As a former Yeoman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...As a former Yeoman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin_College#Athletics), I approve of your Yeomen Warders/Beefeaters suggestion for new USCP threads. That approval was required, by the way. Now you're well on your way to this enhancement.J.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16905339190582667396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post-58903498814195417232011-12-13T12:24:22.049-05:002011-12-13T12:24:22.049-05:00@Ken- I'll try to do a better job clarifying w...@Ken- I'll try to do a better job clarifying where I am and add quadrant markers as need. Thanks for the heads up.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08336664610270023779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post-64448364772845232932011-12-13T12:19:07.554-05:002011-12-13T12:19:07.554-05:00Brian: "2nd NE and": ok my memory is no...Brian: "2nd NE and": ok my memory is not great (it is a 1971 schwinn I commute on that I got for my 13th birthday......) but I believe this is the first time I have seen the quadrant indicators. Even knowing your new Armory West commute, there were times in the beginning and without the morning tea that even I couldn't figure out where you were in your story.....until I realized that like most I assumed NW when in fact at that crucial point in the story you were in fact in SW.......anyway, welcome.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556327472591149962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post-73568072292463585012011-12-13T11:46:57.240-05:002011-12-13T11:46:57.240-05:00Downhill catching the tail end of a green light ro...Downhill catching the tail end of a green light rocks!! Love that on 14th, although some days, it seems like I hit every light.<br />I wish I could make the party, even just to speak the secret passphrase! Shhh, I won't tell anyone. hahaha. Nice.cephashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04881712205613797594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post-14507314664669963552011-12-13T10:42:54.569-05:002011-12-13T10:42:54.569-05:00@MM You're like halfway into a Seinfeld routin...@MM You're like halfway into a Seinfeld routine at this point. I don't understand when looking both ways before crossing the street went out of vogue. <br />@BW I love the cycle track standers. They always look so shocked when there's a bicyclist coming. Like it's endlessly amazing to them that the lane with big pictures of bicycles painted in them might actually house a bicycle. I bet these are people who get confused/angry when someone jumps out at them in a haunted house or when there's anti-immigrant sentiment at a GOP debate.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08336664610270023779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post-3973124137945955252011-12-13T10:27:44.377-05:002011-12-13T10:27:44.377-05:00Pedestrian at 15th and L on Monday afternoon a (co...Pedestrian at 15th and L on Monday afternoon a (cow-orker, for all I know) wandered into the cycle track against the light and stared straight ahead as a bicyclist braked to avoid hitting her, and kept staring straight ahead and wandering as the same bicyclist silently and far too graciously walk-maneuvered around her before resuming pedaling. I can only conclude that this was a cyclist visible only to me.BWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537647090614666652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655972254756722998.post-60396030806953114702011-12-12T21:44:47.430-05:002011-12-12T21:44:47.430-05:00I'm convinced that GWU has a mandatory module ...I'm convinced that GWU has a mandatory module in its student orientation on walking through cars blindly into the street. On H, I lose count of the kids who emerge from behind the ubiquitous food trucks looking right, but oblivious to the fact that the cars nearest them are coming from the left. It's only when they're standing right in front of me in the middle of the lane that they realize their luck that I'm just a bike and I'm anticipating them, and not some SUV driver on their phone...oh, and why is it that people think that putting their cellphone on speaker and holding it 6 inches in front of their face somehow constitutes "hands free"? And why do people in luxury cars that no doubt have Bluetooth still hold their phones to their head to talk?Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07926034591531413589noreply@blogger.com