i hate everything.
no offense to my blogmate and mb (mbm & mb...) but today i hate bicycles and the people who ride them.
after spending the better part of last week wallowing in congested, vomiting misery on my couch i was finally forced to pull myself together and go to work today... but from the second i left my apartment it was all wrong. i was pulling out of the driveway before i realized that my nice hot cup of coffee was still sitting on the kitchen counter, and on the road less than 3 minutes before everything went to hell. i was specifically aware that bike the drive (the yearly cyclist love fest where they close off LSD to cars for some good, old-fashioned two-wheeled fun) was happening this weekend, but specifically thought that it was happening yesterday. i'm still way too chicago-dumb to attempt an efficient maneuver through city streets without any help from mapquest, and proceded to work my way south in a slow, disorganized way that was anything but sexy... and that landed me at work a good 20 minutes late.
things might have moved a little faster had it not been for all the wholesome, happy, bike-helmeted families that were meandering their way westward, obstructing not only my usual route to work but also clogging every intersection between me and my destination.
i'd like to think that my irrational rage was born from my own, inner outdoorsy-ness and my sadness that i couldn't join in on the fun. but really i'm just a bitter girl who hates everything.
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2 comments:
in defense of my as-yet-unnamed bikes and myself, i don't happily meander westward with family in tow. i chase buses down roosevelt and get to work faster than cars do many times.
i too hate bike the drive, actually, but only because i haven't gotten to do it yet. :P
now you know how i feel on the other 364 days of the year when they only let cars on LSD!
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