Usually if I find myself riding like a hoodlum I am riding alone in town, and I don’t have no time for distracted cage drivers anywhere around me. I put them in the mirror using what ever maneuver is necessary.
Huckleberry needed a telephoto lens last week when she went to Denali. 70-300 mm was the best I had. She grabbed it, and I am going to get to see her photos of Denali wildlife.
Soon as she was gone I started thinking 300mm is not enough.
Then I went to the candy store (Stewards Photo) they had a 100- 400mm wide
angle. It looks nice!
After my work the other day I swung by her work. I had some dark
chocolate in my saddlebag, she had the lens. She packed, and over to the
Stewards candy store we road I did a hoodlum maneuver and parked on the sidewalk
with another bike in front of the F Street Station Bar.
The candy store is giving a good trade for the 300mm, and
the 100- 400mm is mine.
Back at her work I left her. Pulling out west bound on the
big street, the light ahead was turning red. I could have jumped over to the
far left empty lane, but I pulled up behind one car. That left lane quickly filled, and when our light went green the cage in front of me did not move. The cage to the left took off as quick as I would have and somehow missed the Humvee that blatantly ran the red light.
A couple of acquaintances were not so luckily on the
Wednesday night ride and got tangled up with a car and each other. Both are
recovering in hospital, are expected to be all right.
Get some good dark chocolate, share it with your pals, and
don’t ever let it melt on the pavement.
Flowers we have growing this summer
So it's dark chocolate that turns ordinary people into daredevil hoodlums? I am in big trouble ...
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