Gross biking incident
Tonight D and I went out to the Hudson River bike path. He went north, I went south and all went smoothly until I was on my way back to the apartment.
Although the path itself is quite nice, there is no beautiful way to get there, and you have to pass a strip club, etc. Anyway, while I was on that savory block, an ENORMOUS rat shot out in front of my bike. I braked and swerved to the left. Somehow I fell off my bike and fell onto the pavement. Two bouncers and a woman who may or may not have been a stripper were staring at me, open-mouthed.
A man who was walking nearby with a red case in his hand said, "Are you all right? You shoulda run him over. You woulda killed him!"
That's what I was trying not to do :) And was the rat even grateful? Probably not. :(
My right palm was pretty much unscathed. My left palm has one of those cuts with dirt and blood mixed in. I just washed it and applied about a pound of antibiotic ointment and a band-aid. Couldn't the rat have just waited? I'm vegetarian, for pete's sake. I would have done it no harm.
Although the path itself is quite nice, there is no beautiful way to get there, and you have to pass a strip club, etc. Anyway, while I was on that savory block, an ENORMOUS rat shot out in front of my bike. I braked and swerved to the left. Somehow I fell off my bike and fell onto the pavement. Two bouncers and a woman who may or may not have been a stripper were staring at me, open-mouthed.
A man who was walking nearby with a red case in his hand said, "Are you all right? You shoulda run him over. You woulda killed him!"
That's what I was trying not to do :) And was the rat even grateful? Probably not. :(
My right palm was pretty much unscathed. My left palm has one of those cuts with dirt and blood mixed in. I just washed it and applied about a pound of antibiotic ointment and a band-aid. Couldn't the rat have just waited? I'm vegetarian, for pete's sake. I would have done it no harm.
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Haven't seen any rats since though.