Sort of a reverse missed connection:
My wife is starting to ride more frequently and is loving it. Unfortunately her commute to work is 20 steps from the bedroom to her office so she tends to ride only on weekends, and as you know this can be discouraging especially given her tendency to ride the MVT. Today she asked if I might accompany her on a fake commute… she wanted to do the Arlington Loop for the first time with a stop in Shirlington before work. It was a wonderful morning with great weather and pretty quite. She turned to me and said “The DB ratio is so much lower in the week” and I just smiled. But to be honest she was right. Most of the folks that passed us gave ample warning and some even gave us a “Good morning”. Runners were super polite and thanked us for our warnings… all in all it was sort of magical… a butterfly even landed on my handlebars… I swear I heard Disney music and saw a Unicorn pooping a rainbow next to the water treatment plant! It certainly helped that we crossed paths with GuyContinental, Fractionman, and RandoGuy who all gave us a warm greeting.
I just wanted to post a good story in this section to restore an ounce of faith in our fellow commuters.
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