The Cynic Says……

Well, I somehow made it through my 16 hrs on, 8 off, 8 on schedule just fine without dying. I was dragging ass at work like nothing else then once I got out and rode home, I suddenly had energy and now I’m not tired. Go fucking figure. I made it home tonight in just over an hour @ 14mph or so average speed. Not nearly as good as the other night when I made it home in under an hour and must have averaged every bit of 15mph. I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that again anytime soon on my tank of a mountain bike (31 lbs or so). Speaking of commuting by bicycle, something amusing happened this morning…

I was talking to this girl on the phone and she was asking me when she’d get to meet me. I told her I didn’t know because of my crazy work schedule and the fact that I hadn’t even talked to her much… so she eventually asks me what I drive. I tell her I don’t drive, that I ride my bicycle everywhere by choice and have no desire to own a car. She thinks I’m joking and when I convince her that in fact I am dead serious, she says that she has to go and will call me back later because she has to call her mom really quick. Not surprisingly, she hasn’t called me back since (and won’t). I have to say that is about the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard of a girl wanting to get off the phone with me. Why not just say “hey, I don’t see any point in talking to you anymore because you don’t have a car and I’m a shallow materialistic cunt who thinks a guy should come see me and pick me up and drive me around and show me off in his nice car.” Instead she has to take the cowardly way out and come up with a bullshit excuse to stop talking to me. I still laugh my ass off thinking about it. In all honesty, I don’t quite understand why me having a car is such a big deal to girls. I guess they’re still clinging to that thought that’s been drilled into their heads that the guys are supposed to be the dominant one… the one to “court” them.. the one to drive and pay for dates, etc. Sorry, but tough shit… That’s not me. I have no desire to own a car and deal with the requisite costs involved in owning one (gas, insurance, car payment, maintenance, etc.). I’m sure as hell not going to buy a car just to please other people. It’s really amazing how people have become so attatched to the automobile that NOT owning one is seen as somewhat like having a 3rd arm growing out of your chest. In all honesty, it amuses me. I’m perfectly happy not owning a car and don’t feel that the very few positives of having one outweigh the numerous negatives involved with owning one. Hence, I stick to the bicycle. I have to say I find it amusing that someone would let something as trivial and stupid as a car effect their decision as to whether or not they want to associate with a given person. Just goes to show how materialistic and stupid people really are.