memo

[fox]

A couple of memos, actually.

to:  cyclists
from:  fox
re:  physics

Hi, guys.  Listen, it's pretty simple physics -- simple enough that I'm aware of it, so I'm saying, right? -- that two masses cannot occupy the same space.  Makes sense, yeah?  Now:  the sidewalks here in town are narrow enough that two pedestrians walking in opposite directions have to make way for each other so they can pass by without collision.  If one of those pedestrians is wheeling a bicycle, the situation is that much worse.  I've already had occasion to speak to people who walk two-abreast and force people coming the other direction to step into the road because they won't get out of the way.  What on earth makes you think it's a good idea to ride your bicycle on the sidewalk, you unspeakable moron?

Please correct this immediately.

cheers
Fox


to:  flowers
from:  fox
re:  pollen

Oh, flowers.  You are so pretty.  Why must you make me itchy and sneezy and groggy?

Bastards.

signed
Fox

Comments

[datlowen.livejournal.com]

>two masses cannot occupy the same space.

Sure they can, just not simultaneously. Even then it's theoretically possible for matter in extremely exotic quantum states. None of which applies to your bicyclists (as exotic as the ide of a British cyclist might seem).

>What on earth makes you think it's a good idea to ride your bicycle on the sidewalk, you unspeakable moron?

Don't they have, um, streets? Where people on bikes are required to ride?

[emila-wan.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Something about your tone puts me in mind of Professor Snape in a snit.

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

To your first memo: riding bikes on the sidewalk was illegal in my old college town. If the police saw you, they'd write you a ticket. And if you were riding your bike drunk... well, let's just say that it counted as points against your driver's license.