I need new bike trails. I did part of the W&OD trail + Curtis trail (entirely)+ Mount Vernon trail (entirely)+ Four Mile Run trail (entirely) yesterday. I am running out of trails, I think all I have left is the C&O canal and Rock Creek. I guess I could start linking them all together so that I have a longer ride each time blaaahhh. Someone shoot me in the foot.
Driving back home I almost run into the back of bus. A bus full of bible bangers!!! I could clearly read the sign in the back of the bus that proudly announced that the bus was transporting some christian group. I was annoyed but then I remembered one incident that looked remarkably similar… I was driving up 395 towards DC to drop off a friend of mine at her aunt’s house and right around the Memorial bridge exit a bus (transporting bible bangers) cut me off and forced me to slam on my brakes and hope that they’d die of a horrible death.
Tonite as I walked to my car, after class was over, I helped some girl fix a flat tire in her car. At first I thought she was looking at something on the ground as her friend watched her while she made a phone call. However when I got closer I realized one of her back tires was completely flat. I approached them cautiously, it was kinda dark in the parking lot, as if to not frighten them and I asked “Do you need any help with that?”, she answered “I dont know, I think I am okay”. I stuck around for a bit and overheard her tell her father on the phone that she was going to attempt to get her spare tire but she didnt know if she was gonna be able to do so.
I watched her fiddle around with the crap in the back of her car and find the spare, she was unable to find the jack. She then went to get a flashlight from her glove compartment but either the batteries were dead or the lil bulb was dead. I watched them both for a minute as one of them pulled out her cell phone and tried to use it as a source of lighting hehehe it proved not to be very practical. I went to my car and grabbed one of the many flashlights I have lying around (yeah I carry all sorts of stupid shit in my car, suck it) and I got back to them still fighting to free the jack from the car. She did seem interested in trying to do the actual changing of the tire on her own so I just took a step back, it was clear that she had never done this before and didnt even know where to position the jack so that she wouldnt put a hole through the floor board of her car. I offered to help again and this time she actually let me do the “work”.
After all was said and done she asked “will the car be okay with that tiny tire?” I couldnt help but laugh a little and said “yes, as long as you drive under 50mph and do not drive for more than 35 miles you’ll be okay”. I went as far as to offer to follow her to a gas station and/or to her home if she didnt feel comfortable driving around with that “tiny tire”.
The fact that I helped her does not surprise, I would’ve done it for anyone, however what really surprised was the fact that I didnt feel like making a nasty comment or the usual nasty retort to anything she had to say. I actually held a conversation with her and didnt make a single smartass comment, although I thought about doing so about fifty times.
“Hi, I am Tina, thank you so much for helping me” she says. She tells me about her two dogs, how her mother is taking care of them while she goes to class, how her class was running super long today and she hated it, how she gets flat tires all time yet she doesnt know one thing about changing a tire on her own, how her brother has apparently been using her car and thats why there is a motorcycle helmet in the back of her car, how she is a computer science major, blah blah and then she asked about me. I remember how much I wanted to say “Do you really wanna know my name? I cant imagine how it would matter, just because I am helping you change your tire doesnt mean that this interaction must take place, I am perfectly happy just changing your tire while you speak on the phone with somebody else, Why do you want to know my name? I know that your “interest” genuine or not will go away the minute I speak and say something you dont like or perhaps the minute that I stop paying attention to something you’ve said or the minute I say “thats fucking retarded, I cant see why you’d want do something like that” why do you feel this is really necessary?” But I didnt say of that, I told her my name and I smiled, i dont think I said anything else.
After it was all said and done I drove around way too fast, missed my exit twice and nearly run off the road while taking a turn way too fast.
I am forgetting something…. oh yeah, Jeremy was right! just about anything Bell’s makes is pretty good, I am currently having a Bell’s Pale Ale.
Thank you Google for saving me money. I just need to get my shit in the mail like yesterday so that I can go to the slopes without fear of breaking my tailbone. Cheers.
So I seem to have lost my ipod shuffle. Now I need to find someone poor bastard that I dont care for so that I can steal his/her ipod. Bloody hell!!!
I got snowboarding gear for cheap!!! I got a snowboard with bindings, helmet, snowboarding leather boots, snowboarding overalls, goggles, face mask, gloves, wrist guards, for just $150!!! so the board is a bit beat up, but only the expected wear and tear of a board that has been used but it is perfect for someone that me that is just starting on this sport 🙂 I cannot express how much more happy I am now when I think of all the expected fun times I will be having in the snow this winter. So who is going skiing/snowboarding with me this winter? I need snow like RIGHT NOW!!! Cheers.
So after spending nearly seven hours in the beltway, sitting in traffic, I must that it was the suck. Must sleep now
I dont think there is an extremity in my body that does not have a fresh or a very recent bruise on it; however painful as they might sometimes be, I dont really give a shit about them, yet I find that this developing callous on the bottom of my right wrist is annoying the hell out of me. I suppose I could always top typing on my laptop, there is no other reason I can think to explain the source of this callous baaah. I am bored