Foward Motion on a Bike

     Have you ever just watched someone try to get started on moving forward on a bike? It can be quite comical some times. I see a lot of it on campus since it is a common method of transportation. The thing that sucks the worst is that people walking on the sidewalks crowd the whole thing and make it damn-near impossible to get through in a safe manner (without hitting someone which I have done, but that is a different story for a different time.) It gets really tricky when you are trying to get moving through a cross walk and initially everyone is crowding the space. You have to try to find enough momentum to not fall over, but also be weary of the humans around you. Today I saw this man trying to get through a crosswalk on his bicycle after waiting for it to be safe to cross. There was probably 6 to 10 people in front of him, walkers I might add, so he had to awkwardly swerve to get going and not hit anyone and I am not sure why I found it so hilarious. He had the huge look of fear on his face like "Oh shit, I am either going to run over someone, or fall over like a fainting goat." Meanwhile, his bike was doing this awkward swerving balancing act. Kind of like a newborn giraffe riding a bike. Any whom, that was my little bit of entertainment today and it probably wasn't nearly as funny as I thought it was.. It might just be a "you had to be there moment," but if you try to imagine a newborn giraffe trying to ride a bike, that in itself is comedy enough.