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Re: [ST] Transit strike



Thanks for the laugh, Steve!  Less than an hour ago I had a similar 
experience with one of my co-workers.   I ride in to work just about 
everyday, and every year when winter rolls around I get the same stupid 
questions from the same people!

John in NJ
'01 BRG ST


>From: Steve Lawler <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ST] Transit strike
>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:53:55 -0500
>
>In a previous email, Rich Rumble stated:
> > Hey, Lawler, how has the transit strike affected your ride to work?
>
>Funny you should mention that. We are off for this and next week so it
>hasn't affected me directly. My wife, on the other hand, works in
>Brooklyn and has to leave the house before 4:30am so that she can get
>through the Holland Tunnel by the 5:00am cut-off. Otherwise she would be
>forced to go through Staten Island. She doesn't have to be in until 7
>but since most of her work is paperwork she is able to go in early and
>leave around 1:30pm.
>
>Had I been working this week the strike would not have affected me.
>Motorcycles are exempt from the four person per vehicle restriction. If
>I was unable to ride the bike I would take the train or have the wife
>drive me in and take the train home.
>
>ST related: Because we are down to one car I was forced to take a
>package to the UPS store on the Blue Devil. It looked rather comical
>having this 24"x20"x6" cardboard box strapped to the top rail. I wish I
>had taken a picture.
>
>So there I am, standing in the UPS store, with the aforementioned
>package under one arm and a bag full of large envelopes and my helmet in
>the other hand when this guy comes walking in, gets behind me in line,
>and says hello. Regretfully, I say hello back to him.
>
>"You rode your bike here?" he asks.
>
>"No you fecking retard. I'm out of work this week, bored and pining for
>the those fair riding days of spring so I decided to put on my full
>leathers and carry my helmet around on my errands which wouldn't be a
>problem except for the fact that I got this friggin' package under one
>arm and a bag full of large envelopes in the other hand." was what I
>wanted to say but instead I said "Yep."
>
>"How's the wind chill?"
>
>"Not bad. I only came over from Verona and I got an electric jacket liner."
>
>"Oh. How does that work? On batteries?"
>
>"I have an outlet on the bike. I just plug it in."
>
>"Oh. You're on a motorcycle."
>
>"No. I AM on line in the UPS Store talking to a moron. I WAS on a
>motorcycle until I saw this building. It looked rather odd so I decided
>to go in and see what types of odd microcephalics would get in line
>behind me." was what I really, really, really wanted to say but merely
>grunted out another "Yep" and turned away from from him just in time to
>here the clerk call "Next."
>
>--
>Steve Lawler
>Verona, NJ, USA
>
>2001 Sprint ST "Blue Devil"
>
>"If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry
>Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and
>buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
>              --Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol"
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