Pssst, Wanna Know A Secret?

[badstar]

I never learned to ride a bike. When I lived with my grandparents, they never got me one(My mom did get me one before that, which I had at my grandparents' house, but they refused to take off the training wheels and then I was eventually too tall for it and they put it in a garage sale.) and eventually my mom got me one, at the time she didn't live anywhere that I could ever really ride the thing and then once we all moved back in with her my sister and brothers took it and wrapped it around a tree or something. Oh, and my stepsister (I used to have one years ago, but my father eventually left my then-stepmother) decided to try and force me to learn one summer when I was visiting them, and I gave up when she pushed the bike- with me on it- out into the street and I almost got hit by a car.

So that's the sad, sad, tragic tale of how Fuego never learned to ride a bike.

Sometimes I think it would be convenient to have one. For serious. But like, yeah...sorry...I think it would be way too embarrassing to try to learn now. I mean, I can see me out there in the lot behind the house, kicking along with one foot and....no. Just, no.

Comments

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

it's not embarrassment that's keeping me from learning. it's the pain of falling down hard on asphalt

...then consider safety gear.

[fervid-dryfire.livejournal.com]

They got things like helmets and knee/elbow pads for that problem. =P

I had the same issues when I'd started rollerblading, but with that gear- AND eventually some wrist guards!- falls weren't an issue. Then once I got better with balance the issue resolved itself completely.