Deep Thoughts for Tired Minds
Alright, it's been awhile since I've posted anything thought provoking or deep, and it's going on midnight now and I'm exhausted so it's not going to happen now either. But this is really earth shakingly, life changingly, go out and buy some chapstick because the nuclear fallout could happen anyday nowly, .......well I lost that train of thought...... oh yeah so this is one of those things that kind of defines who you are. I was sitting in Dairy Queen down near the airport in Purdue West. It was a day alot like today. Actually it was a whole lot like today, since it kind of was today. While staring blankly out the window trying to ignore the textbook infront of me just begging for attention, some girl (not a woman. As young as these freshman look now she was definitely a girl.) But anyway girl or woman that's beside the point, the point is the inhuman way she treated her bike by literally tossing in down onto the side walk before coming inside to get something to eat kind of got my attention. I was pretty tired and bored so I was easily distracted. And actually that's not the point either. The thing that's really important here is that as she was riding away, the answer to an age old mystery was thrown right out into broad daylight for all to see. I think I've finally figured out why the bars on women's bikes are made to dip so low compared to men's bikes. This whole concept never really made sense to me as a kid, and the lack of a valid answer drove me to the point of having to just ignore the whole issue...... till today. As a kid I always thought that the bike manufactures got it backwards. Kathryn never really did anything crazy on her bike, or at least anything that would require extra clearance from that middle bar. I, on the other hand, saw that clearance as very beneficial since the straight bar on my bike had a way of regularly reminding me it was there when I jumped off ramps and things like that. So it never made sense to me why the girls get the extra clearance. So now we see my college education at work: the aformetioned girl happened to be wearing this skirt like dress kind of thing, and as she rode away it suddenly made perfect sense that maybe that bar was like that because, especially back as bike styles were just emerging, the girls might have been wearing dress like things and this lower bar let them ride the bike without having to hike the skirt up to spleen level. So there you have it, simple as could be. Five years of college are now totally worth the pain.
So now I've got to know, how many of you already had this all figured out. Am I the only one that's been in the dark all these years? Maybe if I had tried wearing a kilt this would all have made sense sooner..... I wonder what other mysteries remain unsolved because I haven't worn a kilt.... We may never know. Alright so obviously it's past my bed time ....... so later all.
So now I've got to know, how many of you already had this all figured out. Am I the only one that's been in the dark all these years? Maybe if I had tried wearing a kilt this would all have made sense sooner..... I wonder what other mysteries remain unsolved because I haven't worn a kilt.... We may never know. Alright so obviously it's past my bed time ....... so later all.
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