So I know I haven't posted it a while. It's not because I don't have anything to write about, because I totally do. But when I write a post I have to quickly bang it out or it just sits and festers and rots and whatever, and I never finish. As I'm going about my day and such I do have ideas and I'm like, 'wow, that would be great to blog about' and then I never do it. So I'm going to try again today. Because I think I've finally found my life's biggest conundrum.
Biking on the sidewalk.
Everyone does it. EVERYONE. There's always a time where a biker will be like 'oh shit the street is way too dangerous and I'm probably going to die' and then they head over to the sidewalk. But all bikers, well maybe not all, but at least the hardcore ones hate when people bike on the sidewalk. They're the scum of the biking world. Yeah okay, it's passable if you have small children or the elderly or whatever, but besides that it should not be allowed. For one it puts pedestrians in harms way, and more importantly, on a busy street, it is literally impossible to bike. There is no way a person can successfully bike down a crowded street unless they knock a couple of people over, or shout at the top of their lungs, or something.
So why does everyone hate it when people bike on the sidewalk? Walkers could just walk to the side of the sidewalk, and the bikers could cruise down the middle. It's really more of an inconvenience to the very elderly and the bikers themselves.
So. All I'm saying, Is that I don't think biking on the sidewalk should be so frowned upon. Like today I biked to my architecture class which is downtown and I biked on the street, but there were a lot of cars and a lot of traffic and everyone was going kinda crazy. And I really really really wanted to get on the sidewalk. But do you know what prevented that from happening? My dignity.
So to conclude this post.
I'd like to end all this shit about biking on the sidewalk.
I know it's a hazard to pedestrians and whatever.
But sometimes it is necessary.
