Scary ride

As we always do when we return from our morning run, we sit for a while on our front stairs to relax and see what goes on in our street. This morning, as we were watching our little world go by, we noticed one of our neighbors involved with what I'd call “risky behavior.” Coming from me, that might either strike you as the description of something very daring or perhaps make you think that I have suddenly become extremely tame. Well, picture this; here goes our neighbor, in the street, on her bike with her two year old daughter on the rear bicycle seat. The mother’s holding the handlebar with her left hand while trying to control with her right hand the leash of her dog running along side the bike. If it were not for the little girl on the back, I might say wow! That would be plenty audacious, considering the fact that a bike, its rider and a dog on leash constitute a moving target that's rather vulnerable; a mean dog could attack the rider’s pooch, an out of control car could pop from behind the corner, any emergency a biker typically encounters could happen. With a dog in tow that doesn’t necessarily master the rules of the road, the situation can be tricky. If you add an innocent toddler on the back seat of the bike you now have a recipe for disaster. I guess we, Americans, must be the best at multi-tasking…