Word: bike
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...never get their names. In Jovellanos, a medium-size adobe town of narrow streets, we get lost, quickly and irrevocably. At a street corner, there appears beside us a man on a bicycle. He knows where to go, he says--just follow him. We rumble behind him and his bike at 15 m.p.h., the streets full of onlookers watching our parade--left turn, right, left, left, right, left, 10 minutes and there we are, back on the main road. He points ahead, toward the on-ramp...
George W. Hicks ignored an important point in his editorial (Opinion, Dec. 10), namely that it is actually illegal to ride your bike on the sidewalk in Harvard Square. The woman who yelled at him was completely in the right. Maybe she didn't phrase her comment in the most polite way, but he was breaking...
...sincerely doubt, however, that the woman who yelled at Hicks for riding his bike on the sidewalk and "weaving in and out of pedestrians" was doing so because of a March on Washington flashback...
...stupid for riding your bike on the sidewalk," she responded. We carried on further with remarks relating to each other's respective stupidity as the light changed and I headed toward the River, and she toward the Square...
...addition, the rudeness on both sides of the argument really bothered me. The least she could have done, in initiating the whole rhubarb to begin with, was come up with some polite yet clever way of scolding me: "Lovely mountain bike. Perhaps it would function best in the wilderness." And I would not have retorted so contemptuously. "Such is the urban jungle," I would reply, eyes twinkling, and we'd both go our merry ways...