Slow Sunday Scenes: Turning
The most recent slow Sunday scenes from the Village was somewhat unusual. Typically, or at least typically for the Sunday mornings i opt for for a slower time, there will be a decent mix of bikes and bikers, the recreational riders and the errand riders will be, roughly, a 50/50 to 40/60 mix one way or the other. This Sunday however, the numbers were skewed almost entirely toward the side of recreation. It could be that the Colleges' Fall Break had something to do with that. I sat there long enough to notice repeats in the parade of passers-by, until one dude crossed the street and sat at the other end of the bench. I knew him from the home neighborhood, and as a former racer who had left the sport for some health reasons, but had kept riding. The conversation took a few turns in direction, egged on by the sun hidden one moment, revealed the next by a shifting sea of cloud foam until, at last, he confessed that he was thinking of selling his road bike. That was something of an une...
