It's a miracle I'm alive.

[trinityvixen]

Stupid Apple. They can't seem to let me just pay for a quote I generate with them. They keep insisting that it's been placed and paid for, despite the fact that the quote not only lacked a shipping address, it had no financial information on it at all. That's...hardly placed, much less paid for, is it?

And I spent the entire bike ride to work on the phone with them. If I were less aware of my surroundings, if New Yorkers weren't, on the whole, pretty aware drivers, I wouldn't be here right now. Right, time for that goddamned bluetooth.

Speaking of biking, I've decided to keep track of the number of trips on the subway/bus that my biking saves me. When I get to 100, which is roughly $225 saved, I'm gonna treat myself to something. I could conceivably hit this within a month, seeing as I pick up extra trips when I go visit my former roommate.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I presume you don't have an unlimited Metrocard, then? Did you switch to stored value when you got the bike?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I always had a stored value card. Well, not ALWAYS, just for the past four years because I walked to work. I did up the allowance set aside for it to what would cover a monthly, but I didn't want to buy the monthly this month 'cause I was planning on biking.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

You don't have an unlimited metrocard?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Geeze, I nearly kill myself biking and what amazes people is that I don't have a monthly? What does that say of their expectations of me? "Oh, yeah, she's suicidally stupid, we knew that. But no monthyl MetroCard? Get out!"

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Well, I think all people who bike in Manhattan are crazy. That goes without saying.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

...good point.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeah, she's suicidally stupid, we knew that."

Didn't you post years ago about walking while reading and listen to an iPod?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I can do all those things fine while walking because I walk on sidewalks which are generally car-and-bike-free. (Though you do still have to watch out from time to time.) It's not suicidal at all. Walking in the street WHEN THERE IS A PERFECTLY HUGE SIDEWALK RIGHT THERE OMFG (which, in case the CAPSLOCK rage didn't make clear, is something I'm facing every day) is suicidally stupid.

Once you get into the street, reading and listening to an iPod, you do have to, you know, look up, pay attention, etc. But for the most part, my peripheral vision is excellent, and that covers nearly 90% of what I need to walk and read and listen to music at once safely.

Biking, on the the other hand, is entirely in the street, entirely subject to the whims of people darting out at the last second FOR FORTY BLOCKS OF BIKE RIDE. Even I'm not so crazy as to take away anything that would help me navigate that maze.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Are you planning to bicycle in inclement weather or take the subway?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It depends on the weather. Rain? Maybe, if it's not too bad. I value my bike too much to really let it get soaked and subject to potential rusting, though, so I'll avoid doing that too much. Otherwise, I'll be in the subway for all the other kinds of "weather" that might imperil me.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

HOW do you bike and phone at the same time? I can't even imagine. Don't you need both hands?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I can balance a bike on even terrain with no hands on the bars. The problem is that NYC streets are as laughably far from being straight as is Dan Savage. I have to keep at least one hand on the handle bars all the time, and there were potholes perilous enough to merit two hands plenty of times on the way up.

I can haz handsfree?