The Mushroom from the Mario Brothers.
The lamp post on the left across the bike path is exactly where Alec crashed into the Sunday before.
The ride itself was quite uneventful. However, I forgot my phone, so we had no means of keeping track of time either. Thus, we had to cut the ride short just in case we ran overtime and missed lunch.
Alec was riding very slowly behind me all morning. When I asked him afterwords why he was going so slow, he said he didn’t want to crash or fall anymore. He was very glad and happy that he didn’t fall at all for this 16Km ride. I think he has learned his lesson.
We met a gentleman in his late 60’s on his bike who we’ve chatted with for a while about bikes; and then he went on TCH bashing. Helloooo…, we went biking to get away from things, not to get into them. So I just “yeap…yeap…” all along just so we could get on with our biking sooner.
At the end of the ride we saw the owner of the bike shop we bought our bikes from. Since he was with a pack of riders, we just said hi and told each other where we went and parted our ways.
Consider yourself lucky that the old gentleman was TCH bashing. Imagine someone who does TCH praising instead.
I still think the best method to get out of any such unpleasant situations is “liu gup” or “si gup”. “Got to go! Si gup!”
As for Alec, I think you have just turned a very talented budding extreme sports sportsman into a Sunday rider. No fun. And he could make millions and billions!
TCH anything is getting to be freaking hohum. As no TCH is best, there should do away with all
TCH comments, bashing or otherwise.
Live long and prospor is the motto. My own lesson was to never yell at Alec again during any stunt which may shock him. Sunday rider is good so long as one never TCH anything.