I did my Wednesday afternoon ride with my two bike pals, Lisa and Gary, up on the Green River Trail again yesterday. For the first time this year the weather did NOT have any possibility of cold wind driven, frozen chunks falling from the sky. It was in the 70's with a slight overcast and humidity that reminded me of New Jersey! Actually I half expected a thunderstorm to pop up!
When I read the forecast for today, it mentioned "Clear and Upper Seventies" ....however at this early hour, from my boat I look out the top hatch to see more overcast and my little wind indicators are fluttering like crazy! Maybe the weather man is a DORK!
So, the ride. Gary and Lisa are wisely decked out in the proper, well padded and ventilated clothing for a nearly 30 mile bike ride in Mid-Spring on an unusually sticky Pacific Northwest day......but Dorky Dale, who just spent hard earned money on padded bike shorts, leaves them hanging in a closet becuase he is too modest in a DORKY way to flash his bare white legs to the world, and its too warm to pull a pair of sweat pants over them, shows up in beat up old JEANS as usual.
So after a while of pedalling away, and not really thinking at THAT point that 'I should have worn shorts' Lisa falls behind and soon I hear a laughing voice yell..."Hey Dale! Stand up on your pedals" ......... So there is Dorky Dale, dum de dum dumming along..."OK Ill stand up"...dum de dum dum, doh de doh doh. The next thing I hear is more laughing voice announcing her 'blog post pic of the night'!!!
So after her blog gets posted, I go have a look and there it is....my saggy, blue jean butt posted for the entire world's enjoyment on the internet!! HAAAAAA!! As a gentle reminder that Dale needs to start wearing those dang shorts!!!
Well after about 25 miles of this ride, I start getting a warm feeling in the seat of my pants that is NOT connected to thoughts of Mom's Apple Pie and TeddyBears!
OK so I admit it.....and here you have it, publicly posted and announced. Next Week Dorky Dale Wears The Bike Shorts! But NOW I will be a little more cautious when freinds start suddenly falling behind!!
Now then since Dale was DORKY enough to forget his camera again, Im sure Lisa wont mind if I swipe HER pics and post them here just to illustrate what a neat little trail we have found and to share amazement that whoever planned this trail was NOT a DORK and pulled it off in the center of the huge industrial complex of South Seattle where we are sometimes mere yards from buzy freeways and warehouses! )
Here, 
Lisa captures Gary and I in a well aimed, backwards picture, just before she put a sneaky, devilish expression on her face and fell behind for the "Famous Butt Shot"! HAAA!!
And then she found this neat subject. "Pink Blossoms on the Trail", that I can't swipe and post without the reminder that we ARE on a bike path in the middle of a large urban industrial area!! Way to go UN-dorky trail planners!!
OK, more DORK stories........
A few weeks ago, I was at work, about 11PM, unloading gasoline at a station, had my hoses plugged in, and my little orange cones set out (you'll have to read previous blogs to appreciate my sensetivity on this subject) when this car with a couple Big Dumb Stupid DORKS pulls up and runs right over one of the cones!!! So, I give them a very stern, scowling look and a very direct finger jab to direct them back out of my danged work area, which they do, and Dale returns to his job with a disgusted head shake at how STUPID people can be....but what does he see next? The SAME Big Dumb Stupid DORKS once again drive right back over the cone and into a second one!! So, at this point, the station attendant is out, and I holler over .. Hey! Go ahead and call the cops on these idiots! To which he asks, rather timidly, "Do you really want me to?" to which I exclaim with full intent and escaping steam..."Hell yes I want you to call the cops!!" While this exchange is going on, I am walking around to the open drivers window (becuase of the glare of the overhead lights, I have no idea who is in the car!) in full "pi**ed off mode" with a well placed, "Hey! Are you having a problem here tonight!!?" When I WANTED to say "What the @&%$ is wrong with you, you stupid moronic idiot?!! My exclamations ended in mid-sentence when I rounded the drivers side to find my two co-workers"B" and "N" in the car on their night off, laughing so hard they nearly had tears running down their faces!! So the cops never got called and we all enjoyed a good laugh. And I was given the compliment that "Dangit Dale your patient!! I would have gone ballistic when the first cone was run over!!
OK so you'd think I would learn and be wise to this stuff, Right?
Last Sunday morning ( Oh! I am on DAY SHIFT now!!! :) I was unloading at another station when this stupid moron in a car drives up alongside my work area...sees my orange cones and opens his car door and slowly drives along knocking each one over!! Just to discover it was yet ANOTHER co-worker who was happening by to fill his car! Yep I work with a real fun loving bunch of DORKS!!! HAAA!!!
Be safe and have a great day :)
