I miss my last real job...
I miss riding
I miss working with riders
I miss helmet hair
I miss dreaming about epic rides
I miss being the dashing lady rider =)
I miss my 'girls', currently tucked in a garage half a state away, neither functional.
I don't miss getting hit by trucks
I don't miss wiping out on black ice
I don't miss commuting in the rain
I don't miss stolen bikes
le sigh
When I first moved to PDX there was a sport bike shop on the same block as my school, I had a fantasy of working there -- continuing my "career" in motorcycles while I finished school, but the shop moved or closed. Either way it's gone.
For all my big girl grown up "when I get out of college" dreams, the things I come back to most often have to do with bikes....which have absolutely nothing to do with the "job" I have at the event in the desert , or Art, or animation, or photography, or writing... none of it. But offering people safe passage to a sense of liberty and freedom makes me well up with pride.
DAMN YOU MOTORCYCLES!!! (shakes fist) Why you gotta go wreck me like that? Mistress and muse.
I miss working with riders
I miss helmet hair
I miss dreaming about epic rides
I miss being the dashing lady rider =)
I miss my 'girls', currently tucked in a garage half a state away, neither functional.
I don't miss getting hit by trucks
I don't miss wiping out on black ice
I don't miss commuting in the rain
I don't miss stolen bikes
le sigh
When I first moved to PDX there was a sport bike shop on the same block as my school, I had a fantasy of working there -- continuing my "career" in motorcycles while I finished school, but the shop moved or closed. Either way it's gone.
For all my big girl grown up "when I get out of college" dreams, the things I come back to most often have to do with bikes....which have absolutely nothing to do with the "job" I have at the event in the desert , or Art, or animation, or photography, or writing... none of it. But offering people safe passage to a sense of liberty and freedom makes me well up with pride.
DAMN YOU MOTORCYCLES!!! (shakes fist) Why you gotta go wreck me like that? Mistress and muse.
Q,
ReplyDeleteI don't suffer from #5 in your miss list (or #6 either for that matter) and I add a #5 to your "don't miss" list, namely neck pain and numb hands from wearing heavy helmet on a crotch-rocket bike (I have arthritis in my neck)and my wife refuses to come to the ER any more to pick me up. But even at 70, I still miss riding.
Neck pain, numb hands, lower back tension, my funny trick hip; I don't miss that stuff either. I do have a really great lightweight helmet though, I will say that was a nice perk of working at BMW.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to add: I miss the day in the year when we make the switch to vented gear. Man, the joy of pulling out the perforated gloves!
ER visits will bankrupt me - I think I've lost more to the hospitals than in the stock market (and that's saying a lot).