"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Claire, I believe this happened in your town--tragic and senseless
(aren't they all?) shootings inside a Jewish center. How close are you
to this event, and how are you affected?Were these Jewish cyclists?
Fairly off topic I guess
I will give a brief, on-topic reply, and then request follow-ups to email.
At the time of the incident, I was not downtown, but at a meeting at the
University of Washington. After the meeting, I got on my bike and rode
down to Montlake where you can put your bike on the bus so that you may
cross the lake (the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is closed to
non-motorized traffic). It's a very busy place to load a bike, and another
cyclist and I filled up the rack. When we got on the bus, it was packed.
Downtown was in the process of being shut down to all traffic, and so it
was crammed with standing riders. It was then that I heard of the
shooting. Having managed the bond issue for the Jewish Federation
(including their upgraded security system) and knowing a few people who
work there, I was understandably upset. I appreciate having the resource
of the bike to work off anxiety and to focus on other concerns. If I had
been driving, I would have stewed in a car, listening to the news.
Instead, after unloading the bike at the transit station near Microsoft, I
had to pay attention to thick rush-hour traffic, to get myself home.Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky
Why are you running all over Seattle in the first place? Why don't you stay
home and look after your husband and children like a good Jewish wife
should? All this gallivanting of yours is sickening. Have you no shame. I
think you must be some kind of trollop.
Cool Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota