I hate riding into the driveway and putting the scooter away. I hate riding past a good place for breakfast. And I hate riding without enough time to stop for every picture I want to make. I have a lot of hate wrapped up in riding.
The ride to work this morning unfolded in a gentle rain with temperatures in the mid 40s. After so much cold winter riding this was heaven. Nothing to hate about a little rain.
I stopped once during a leisurely ride home from work to take this picture. I was thrilled to not find my hands numb from the cold while handling the camera. Spring can be measured by the amount of ungloved time that can be reasonably contributed to photography.
I found one more thing to hate after I got home. Not sure how many of you suffer from the 10 pounds of change syndrome, you know, all the change received from a hundred stops all piled together in one pocket of your riding pants, and when you take them off 5 out of 10 times that change exits a magically un-Velcroed pocket and falls to the floor in a frustratingly wide pattern. It happens at home. It happens at work.
I hate that.
I hate helmet hair!
I hate to go to work! I’m up early the gear is on, so why waste a great day of riding by going to work? I guess you can argue it is a never ending circle, “ride to work / work to ride” Oh well…
GAW
Loose coins.
Your monetary system is like ours in Canada.
One difference our one and two dollar bills are coins.
On your dresser in your bedroom or
by your entry door have a row of containers with lids. Those plastic
containers that have icing for cakes are good. Cut a hole in the top of each one and at the end of the day or ride take your loose change and drop them into the
one cent, five cent, ten cent, 25 cent slot. And have another jar for all those myriad one dollar bills. In my case there is two extra jars, well three.
One for $1.00 coins, one for $2.oo coins and one for all the American/US money that gets into our system. pennies don’t count.
You’ll be surprised how much the loose change adds up.
When the containers get too full,
then roll the money and put it into a special slush fund account for those expenes over and above the normal day to day routine.
Or as I do, use the money to save for something special. In my case
am saving for a D700, or close equivalent. At my rate of saving though, the D700 will be old hat
by the time I have enough money.
Maybe the money will go first to the new roof on the house (More practical) and then maybe new tures on the goldwing, then maybe a D700? Who knows?
The money is yours to do with as you choose.
I had to tone down the use of that word because Katie “hates” it when I say “hate”.
Now I just say “disenchanted”.
Dude, you’re turning into a complicated guy!
I hate riding the bike in circles in my garage because there is still too much snow and ice on the roads to ride… *sigh*
Agree with Bryce… I hate the tons of coins and I deal with it exactly as he says…maybe it is a Canadian Desease
Riding season round the corner now
cpa3485: My hair is always a mess unless it is less that 1/4 inch long. So I had helmet hair long before I was a rider.
682202: That’s an eternal question GAW. If you figure out a way around work let us all know.
Bryce: I have a few containers filled. It just reappears in my pockets as if by magic.
I spend my change in coffee shops. You would need a lot of change for a D700!
irondad: Complicated? Not me. I’m simple. My initials are sfw and my wife has referred to me as “simple f…. williams” every now and again.
Disenchanted. I like that word. I will have to see how I can fit that into a post.
Geist: Isn’t it summer there yet?
Barons Life: Canadians have it rough! 😉
I’m losing most aspects of hating much of anything these days.
Although trying to copy that damn word verification letter psunami can get on my nerves.
Harv