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Date: 29 Sep 2007 11:46:18
From: Claire Petersky
Subject: new guy sharing the office
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Recently someone new was hired to share my office. It's like having a
roommate in college, only in some ways worse. You'll see your office mate
probably for longer during the day than you'll see your spouse, and you hope
that you'll be semi-compatible.
One of my worries was all the stuff related to bike commuting: having
clothes stored in the office; hanging up a dripping jacket and putting wet
gloves under the fan; "cooling down" upon arrival in lyrca -- you know.
I didn't need to worry about this. He used to be a bike commuter and a
big-time cyclist as well as a tri-geek ironman type. A head-on with an SUV
on a descent on the RAMROD ride and 5 months in the hospital a few years
back left him unable to ride any more. (He says he could probably manage a
recumbent, but he's just hiking these days instead.) So he's pretty tolerant
of the little foibles that result from riding in to work every day.
He has a bike gathering dust now that I might check out. Obviously, it's not
the one in RAMROD that was totalled. It's a Klein road bike, made here the
last year Klein didn't belong to Trek and production went off to Wisconsin.
(1994 or 1995? A Quantum Pro Ultegra I think) Anyway, it's not like I'm in
the market for a new bike, but it's the right size, and there's not reason
not to check it out, since he'd probably let it go for cheap.
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Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky
http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky
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Date: 30 Sep 2007 04:23:17
From: Tom Keats
Subject: Re: new guy sharing the office
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In article <13ft7bo75ndeoca@corp.supernews.com >,
"Claire Petersky" <cpetersky@mouse-potato.com > writes:
>
> He has a bike gathering dust now that I might check out. Obviously, it's not
> the one in RAMROD that was totalled. It's a Klein road bike, made here the
> last year Klein didn't belong to Trek and production went off to Wisconsin.
> (1994 or 1995? A Quantum Pro Ultegra I think) Anyway, it's not like I'm in
> the market for a new bike, but it's the right size, and there's not reason
> not to check it out, since he'd probably let it go for cheap.
Sometimes Destiny provides us with the stuff
we'll need, right before we need it. And
sometimes we're middlemen through whom blessings
are passed to their ultimate recipients.
It's a blessing for somebody, if not yourself.
Who are we to turn it down?
I suggest just going with the flow, and seeing
where it leads.
Maybe your new office neighbour will get to
ride it again. That'd be a blessing, too.
Actually, it might be interesting to document
and biograph a bicycle and its various guardians.
That would be such a Canadian, NFB thing, eh?
Atom Egoyan might be able to pull it off.
cheers & klahowya,
Tom
--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
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Date: 29 Sep 2007 18:12:30
From: Just A User
Subject: Re: new guy sharing the office
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Claire Petersky wrote:
> Recently someone new was hired to share my office. It's like having a
> roommate in college, only in some ways worse. You'll see your office mate
> probably for longer during the day than you'll see your spouse, and you hope
> that you'll be semi-compatible.
>
> One of my worries was all the stuff related to bike commuting: having
> clothes stored in the office; hanging up a dripping jacket and putting wet
> gloves under the fan; "cooling down" upon arrival in lyrca -- you know.
>
> I didn't need to worry about this. He used to be a bike commuter and a
> big-time cyclist as well as a tri-geek ironman type. A head-on with an SUV
> on a descent on the RAMROD ride and 5 months in the hospital a few years
> back left him unable to ride any more. (He says he could probably manage a
> recumbent, but he's just hiking these days instead.) So he's pretty tolerant
> of the little foibles that result from riding in to work every day.
>
> He has a bike gathering dust now that I might check out. Obviously, it's not
> the one in RAMROD that was totalled. It's a Klein road bike, made here the
> last year Klein didn't belong to Trek and production went off to Wisconsin.
> (1994 or 1995? A Quantum Pro Ultegra I think) Anyway, it's not like I'm in
> the market for a new bike, but it's the right size, and there's not reason
> not to check it out, since he'd probably let it go for cheap.
>
Well at least he is a former cyclist. Check out the bike anyway. And
encourage the guy to get into cycling again (even if he has to ride a
recumbent) The more cyclist out there the better.
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Date: 06 Oct 2007 20:05:11
From: Tom \Johnny Sunset\ Sherman
Subject: Re: new guy sharing the office
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"Just A User" Who? wrote:
> ...And encourage the guy to get into cycling again (even if he has to
> ride a recumbent)
NO, not that horror!!!
> The more cyclist[s] out there the better.
Recumbent riders do not count.
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Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
A Real Cyclist [TM] keeps at least one bicycle in the bedroom.
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Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
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Date: 29 Sep 2007 15:00:55
From: rdclark
Subject: Re: new guy sharing the office
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On Sep 29, 2:46 pm, "Claire Petersky" <cpeter...@mouse-potato.com >
wrote:
> He has a bike gathering dust now that I might check out. Obviously, it's not
> the one in RAMROD that was totalled. It's a Klein road bike, made here the
> last year Klein didn't belong to Trek and production went off to Wisconsin.
> (1994 or 1995? A Quantum Pro Ultegra I think) Anyway, it's not like I'm in
> the market for a new bike, but it's the right size, and there's not reason
> not to check it out, since he'd probably let it go for cheap.
I sold my old hybrid to my office mate who wanted to start commuting.
It really is a true test of that particular relationship; makes you
feel an ongoing responsibility for his success and safety. Hopefully
if your new associate sells you the Klein he'll feel the same way.
What you say about relationships with co-workers is one of life's
little hidden truths. It's a situation that's fraught with peril.
Fortunately, my office-mate and I are very like each other: cyclists,
musicians, parents of grown children, products of similar histories of
social and political activism.
r
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Date: 29 Sep 2007 12:31:21
From: Bill Sornson
Subject: Re: new guy sharing the office
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Claire Petersky wrote:
> Recently someone new was hired to share my office. It's like having a
> roommate in college, only in some ways worse. You'll see your office
> mate probably for longer during the day than you'll see your spouse,
> and you hope that you'll be semi-compatible.
>
> One of my worries was all the stuff related to bike commuting: having
> clothes stored in the office; hanging up a dripping jacket and
> putting wet gloves under the fan; "cooling down" upon arrival in
> lyrca -- you know.
> I didn't need to worry about this. He used to be a bike commuter and a
> big-time cyclist as well as a tri-geek ironman type. A head-on with
> an SUV on a descent on the RAMROD ride and 5 months in the hospital a
> few years back left him unable to ride any more. (He says he could
> probably manage a recumbent, but he's just hiking these days
> instead.) So he's pretty tolerant of the little foibles that result
> from riding in to work every day.
> He has a bike gathering dust now that I might check out. Obviously,
> it's not the one in RAMROD that was totalled. It's a Klein road bike,
> made here the last year Klein didn't belong to Trek and production
> went off to Wisconsin. (1994 or 1995? A Quantum Pro Ultegra I think)
> Anyway, it's not like I'm in the market for a new bike, but it's the
> right size, and there's not reason not to check it out, since he'd
> probably let it go for cheap.
Well it wasn't a Penthouse letter like the Subject line suggested, but at
least it had some bike pron. :-P
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