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May 17, 2005
biking! 
I don't know what got into me this morning, but I decided to ride the bike to work, even though rain is forecast and the skies are threatening.
As is my wont, I wore a dress today. I especially love wearing skirts or dresses while on two-wheeled vehicles. (I would love to find leg armour that would not ruin the look of a skirt on the scooter!) That, and now that I only have one pair of pants to wear to work, and I wore them yesterday and got them dirty, um, I had to wear a skirt or a dress.
The dress is one I bought probably 15 years ago. At K-M@rt. For less than 15 bucks. For reasons that elude me, it always gets compliments.
Today's ride was incredibly pleasant. I took the usual straight route to work, but I didn't feel like I was working so hard so much of the time, and I was able to ride in lower gears for most of it. And I never hit the highest gear, wuhoo!
But, I kept feeling the dress get caught. By the time I got to NE Holliday, right before the Steel Bridge, I stopped, and saw that not only was my dress caught, but at this point it had a big black hole near the hem from where it was getting caught in the brake.
I don't know why, but my reaction was pure joy.
So once I got to work, I wandered around looking for people who would appreciate the hole in my dress. It was a great ride!
Posted at May 17, 2005
Comments
You are funny. I have this hysterical image of you wondering around porltand with a HOly dress
Posted by: brit at May 17, 2005 9:37 PM
Yikes! What if it got caught in the wheel and ripped your dress right off you! Ok, Jon's paranoid thought of the day. :)
And that is kinda funny about showing people the hole. Its like a badge of courage. I'd do it too. Uh, if I were female. Not now.
Posted by: Jon in Michigan at May 18, 2005 7:04 AM