To the goth girl riding her bicycle on the crowded sidewalk of Brenton Street, Friday evening, September 19th:
Thanks so much for the hysterical beginning to our evening. Even though you were in the wrong by being on the sidewalk in the first place AND almost planting your front tire in my crotch, I still tried to politely step aside to allow you to pass. After hearing you uttering “fuuuuck” as you annoyingly scampered past me, well, it was my turn to point out how in the wrong you actually were. “You’re a bike on the sidewalk!”, I yelled, only to hear you’re amazingly well-crafted shriek: “Fuck off!”
We laughed for hours.
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You should have tried to find something long and narrow, and whinged it into the spokes of either wheel. That would have learned her alright. Bikes belong on the road, not the sidewalk. Jesus they just don’t get it do they.
Should have complained something long and narrow into the spokes? What?