I'm On The Bus

It's Bike to Work week ya'll.

Last week I was riding into work, on the Xtracycle, after not having ridden it for a few weeks because the back brake wasn't working - and I came upon a stop light.

And as I always do at stop lights, I adjusted my outfit a bit so that my muffin top wasn't showing, as it often does, because most of my pants are low rise and low rise pants really don't do you right while you're riding your bike into to work.

And I looked up at the back of a bus in front of me and saw an ad for some sort of bike commuting thing or something or other and noticed that the girl in the picture on the ad looked kind of familiar.

And then the bus took off.

And I followed it for a bit, and thought about it for a second and then was all wait a second, I think that's me!

On the back of the bus. Wearing that orange sweater with the too short sleeves that the lady who was 4'9" let me borrow, lifting the bike that was too small for me that the 4'9" lady let me ride around on because she didn't want to actually get on the bus for the photo shoot and then have to ride all the way back down Broadway to where the shoot was happening.

And hey, those are the same pants I have on right now!



And so, I chased the bus, on the Xtracycle. I went as fast as I could to get to it at the next bus stop.

And then, once there, I'd wait behind the bus and look at the ad of myself. On the bus. And then the bus would take off and I'd start chasing again. And this went on for a few stops. And as my head started to clear, after the excitement of seeing myself on the back of a city bus disapated, I realized that I had my camera, way back in the bag in the back part of the Xtracycle. So at the NEXT light, I stopped and propped the bike up and went back there, to root around in my bag and find the camera.

And then back on the bike, to chase down the bus to take a picture. Which took a while, because after all I was chasing a bus while riding an Xtracycle.

And then I went to work. On my bike.