It's rained nonstop, sometimes torrentially, since early Sunday morning. And it's been unseasonably cold. My friend Millie remarked, "The weather is always nasty on Mother's Day but nice on Father's Day."
I mused that the weather might be a metaphor for a mother's life and a father's life, or a woman's and a man's. Or, perhaps, it means that God really is a man--and one who hates women, at that.
She, who's enough of a Catholic to believe that if she lives right, she'll join her husband John in Heaven, laughed.
About the weather: That it comes during Bike to Week work seems like a conspiracy. I used to know someone who believed that the CIA controlled the weather. I could believe that, at least for the past few days, the clouds and precipitation have been regulated by someone who hates cyclists.
Now, this weather might deter someone who was thinking about riding his or her bike to work or school for the first time. It doesn't seem to have driven most of the regular bike commuters to the subway or buses. And, yes, I rode to work, but I haven't done a "fun" ride since Saturday.
While the rain might not be a disincentive for die-hard veteran bike commuters, this could be
You have to admit, though, that there is something ironic about a Department of Transportation vehicle in the approach to the Queensborough Bridge bike lane:
Thank you, Coleman Barton, for the image--and tweet.
I mused that the weather might be a metaphor for a mother's life and a father's life, or a woman's and a man's. Or, perhaps, it means that God really is a man--and one who hates women, at that.
She, who's enough of a Catholic to believe that if she lives right, she'll join her husband John in Heaven, laughed.
About the weather: That it comes during Bike to Week work seems like a conspiracy. I used to know someone who believed that the CIA controlled the weather. I could believe that, at least for the past few days, the clouds and precipitation have been regulated by someone who hates cyclists.
Now, this weather might deter someone who was thinking about riding his or her bike to work or school for the first time. It doesn't seem to have driven most of the regular bike commuters to the subway or buses. And, yes, I rode to work, but I haven't done a "fun" ride since Saturday.
While the rain might not be a disincentive for die-hard veteran bike commuters, this could be
You have to admit, though, that there is something ironic about a Department of Transportation vehicle in the approach to the Queensborough Bridge bike lane:
Thank you, Coleman Barton, for the image--and tweet.
