My new mode of travel
now grandkids are in school
not needing tending
and I need to run to the
post office or store,
is the Old Lady Bike.
Now some people I know
wouldn't be caught dead
on the 'adult tricycle',
but I like returning
to childhood as I
pump around town
looking at flowers
checking if a new pup
is around...buying
a couple of things to
haul around.
My son and grandchildren
bought me the bike
for my birthday,
the kids thinking
I could haul
water and food when
we rode bikes to
the park -
not that I might
fall off on my head
from my 25 year old dog.
I like not using gas,
making my knees work
to become more limber,
feeling my heart race
trying to go too fast uphill:
living longer.
Since I have no pride
about appearing old
and peddle around town,
other older people
appear on bikes
peddling...oh not the men
just the ladies on their
Old Lady Bikes.
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Your sister made me look at your photo and the resemblance is frightening. You could actually be your sister. Incidentally I want you to know that as my one and only fan, I would appreciate it greatly if you would let me die first because if you do I will have no fans. I see you have given up horses for bicycles. May I add those are the largest training wheels I have ever seen. Keep viewing! You never know what will happen.
ReplyDeleteI know. Once we were in a store and a man stopped and asked me how I changed clothes so fast as I would walk by then Gerry did. He thought we were the same person!
ReplyDeleteAs for dying...please don't until you have drawn a few more hundred pictures! Get them out there to view! You are an artist.
I like your old lady bike. You look cute as can be with it beside you. I would buy one but where I live I would be run over in a thrice.I;m still trying to get my nerve up to used the carts at Costco. It's such a big darn place. Still I'm afraid I my knock over their displays or the sample giving ladies. I'm used to my car but motorized carts?Not.
ReplyDeleteBefore I read Doc's comment I thought she looks very much like Gerry. Good for the old lady bike. I have an old two wheel with no speed, just mine. lol The neighborhood kids look at me funny.
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