As promised: Matt's Incredible Adventure at the Bike Shop.
We luckily missed the rain. It started raining about 30 minutes after we left the shop. Not that riding a bike in the rain is particularly dangerous, a little more than a car but not by much and quite safe when you know what you're doing, like I apply myself to do (know what I'm doing, I mean). No, rain does not equal danger. Rather, rain equals wet. You get wet in the rain and it's not a comfortable feeling.
Sandra came with us to check out bikes. We've be talking about it for a couple of days and she's totally into it. She wants to get a bike, eventually, and wanted to have a look at what's available (and mostly the prices). So we spent a good hour in there, sitting on bikes, talking about bikes, checking out the place.
Then we drove around to find a sofa bed, found one and came back home.
Oh! the breathless part. Since the suspense isn't quite... well, present at all, breathlessness shall be induced through the use of a very long sentence. Here goes.
While at the shop I was in need of a couple of things, which I got, namely a breathgard for myself (a thingamajig that clips into the helmet just above your nose so your breath doesn't flow up into the shield and fog it all up), a tainted shield for Vero's helmet (so she doesn't have to deal with sunglasses) and a new pair of gloves for myself to replace the current, now old, pair of gloves that I've been using since last year and that are now pretty worn and getting not quite comfortable and, as I was checking the gloves -- all 30% off, which is good when they cost 200$! -- I saw a pair of "colder weather" gloves which I will have to buy eventually because when it gets cold your hands get cold and you can't really move them around much, particularly the right one, since you're holding on to the handles (and the right is squeezing the throttle) but I didn't get that pair because that's enough money for one day and hey! my birthday is coming up anyway so I got the "warmer weather" pair but they didn't have exactly the same color scheme so now I have slightly un-matching gloves to go with the rest of the outfit but whatever I'll survive (and, more importantly, I will be protected).
How many passed out from that?
