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posted : Saturday, July 18, 2009
title : Bike Villain Angst
+ I have been riding my bike to Starbucks a lot in the morning because it's more efficient than bus, but some fellow rider had left a sticky note on the seat saying something along the lines of: "Someone's gonna getyer pretty little bike if you don't learn to lock it up properly. I've been watching it all week and you're just asking for it to be stolen." I think it was meant in kindness or at least as a public service, but it read like an attack, something written out by a threatening bike villain with a disposition like the Wicked Witch of the West (a woman who certainly used her bicycle to pedal evil and terror). Fearing the depths of my bike locking inadequacies and the tendency of a stranger to eye my bike for a whole week, I now only ride it when I know I'll be able to watch it. So much angst over pedaling petty theft. :( |