Seen on the walk to work
Walking from the BART stop to the office the other morning I saw a quite
peculiar sight. A man was riding a 50’s era bicycle down the street against
traffic (the wrong way that is). Only his right hand was on the handle bar and
in his left hand was clutched a portable radio/tape machine. As he rode along
he would listen to a bit of music, then hit the fast-forward or rewind button
to move the position of the tape. It was audibly odd. Sort of a
la la la…screeeeeet…woo woo woo la…screeeeeet screeeeeet…la la
hey sound. The people were singing to him, but that’s not what he wanted
to hear. The whole time he was doing this he never looked up, I hope he made
it wherever he was going okay.
