It's like a riding a bike...

My sister Becca recently told me that she missed reading my blog, so I decided I needed to post something soon. Since I haven't had any blog worthy experiences lately, I'll tell a story that happened a couple of years ago.

I was 20 years old and had been pulled over 21 times and therefore, had my drivers license suspended for a month. I was working two jobs at the time (to pay for all the speeding tickets) so I couldn't really just hang out at home and do nothing. I didn't feel that I could get rides from friends everyday since I still had my pride, and I didn't even have enough friends to cover all the rides I would need anyway. So being the resourceful girl that I am, I borrowed a bike from a friend and rode it to work every day.

One particular day I noticed that my shoelace was becoming untied and I didn't want to take the time to get off the bike and tie it since I was already late for work (the reason for the tickets in the first place). I'm very bendy so I came up with the brilliant idea of putting my foot on the handle bars to tie my shoe while I was driving. This resulted in disaster and I ended up crashing the bike, and my entire body, into a chainlink fence. Luckily no damage was done to the bike that I didn't even own, the fence that got in my way, or myself. I counted all eight cars that slowly passed by while I was on the ground laughing hysterically. But that's not all. My eyes get really squinty when I laugh and I can't see anything, so for the rest of the trip to work I had to stop four different times so I could laugh about it without crashing again. In retrospect, I would have saved a lot of time by just getting off the bike and tying my shoe in the first place.