FLYING JEDI KNIGHT ON MY DADS HUFFY WOMENS STYLE BIKE

From Paintings

Louie Kisses Girl Robots. 2009. Lou Carv. 24"x64". Ink on Canvas.

When you ask for something, you usually get it.

Well, for months I have been wanting to ride my bike to work. Everyday I get in my big ass, old man's car and wish that I could be riding a bike to work. It really does not make any sense why I can't ride my bike. It's just that I always wake up too late and have to haul ass. Or, I wake up early but then spend 20 minutes in the shower trying to wake up. I really do not like driving. It is probably cause I've never had a cool fast car. I'm always driving some piece of shit that's having some sort of problem.

Today, 01/28/09, things changed. I rode my bike to work. My car is not working and I have to pay $490 bucks to fix it. I rode my dad's Huffy mountain bike cause mine was stolen from the front of my house.

I was really excited that it was actually happening. I felt like I was helping heal the earth. I was in tune with the universe. The whole "GREEN" thing was happening. This is pretty crazy cause thousands of New Yorkers ride their bikes and feel totally normal about it. In Miami, no one rides their bikes to work. The only bikers you see are those Lance Armstrong types in those funny looking spandex tights.

My ride was very peaceful. First, some asshole started cursing at me cause he wanted to make a left and he had to wait for me to cross. I told him to fuck off. Then I saw another biker and waved at him but he ignored me. This was the only biker I saw.

When I got to 37Th Ave and Bird Rd I told myself, "be careful... cause you don't want to get killed in this ugly ass intersection." I waited to cross Bird Road very patiently. But It was taking too long. I started to get inpatient and suddenly my reasoning skills left my brain. The red hand was still on but I was crossing cause all the cars had stopped. When I was in the middle of the intersection all the cars began to move and I was like, "Oh shit, this is going to get embarrassing or bloody!" I sped up and swerved around a car that almost hit me. The passenger was a girl and she screamed, "Look at the lights, you Moron!" I was like, "lower your voice, cause this is really embarrassing, you know."