bikes
nicole and i bought bikes like… probably five years ago now. we went to a little bike shop near USF and spent like an hour looking through them and test riding. for me there were two that i liked – a red single gear bike, and a green multi-gear bike that was on sale. they both were going to be about the same price. the green one had a little rack type thing on the back for putting stuff, and the overall impression was the bike was old school and very cool. but test riding the red bike felt more ‘visceral’ and it felt right, probably as a result of having no additional gears. so i bought the red bike.
to this day, every now and then i remember that green bike and regret my purchase of the red one. just little pangs of inwardly directed rage. i wish i had known then how i would feel about the bikes, but i didn’t and nothing can change it.
some seemingly stupid little things you just can’t get past.