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  1. What could be more private than the parking lot of a little used park?
    Maybe a corner of that parking lot at 1:30 a.m., in the shadows, next to the
    bushes where nobody can see you? Not the cops on the highway,
    and that's what really matters...

    It's a great place, you have the fresh air, the river smell -- you can even
    see past the bike path to the river itself. Bats and fireflies battle in
    silence. Cicadas and frogs resonate. A possum trundles to the trash can
    and quietly loots the treats within. Nobody can sneak up on you because
    you'll hear their car coming down the winding driveway, and their headlights
    will cast moving shadows. It's a great place to relax for a little
    old-fashioned parking lot [censored]... yahh....

    Until--OMFG!--a cyclist?!?!?! with 2x15 watt halogen lamps bursts around the
    bend in the bike path at 20 miles an hour! and he's headed straight at your
    door!---and you can't figure out what to do! You just sit there, staring at
    the blinding lights, pale and sweaty and you hear

    "BWAAAAAHAHAHAHahahaha hahha ha a a a ah h h!"

    echo through the valley as the biker turns and disappears up the drive as quickly as
    he appeared.

    ..max

  2. "max" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    What could be more private than the parking lot of a little used park?

    Quoted message said:

    Until--OMFG!--a cyclist?!?!?!

    I was riding down the Interurban trail, mid-morning, on a weekday day off,
    when I decided I needed to use a Honey Bucket by the side of the trail. I
    yanked the door open. The guy preparing that day's fix was sure surprised to
    see me.

    --
    Warm Regards,

    Claire Petersky
    http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
    See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

  3. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Claire Petersky said:

    "max" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    What could be more private than the parking lot of a little used park?

    Quoted message said:

    Until--OMFG!--a cyclist?!?!?!

    I was riding down the Interurban trail, mid-morning, on a weekday day off,
    when I decided I needed to use a Honey Bucket by the side of the trail. I
    yanked the door open. The guy preparing that day's fix was sure surprised to
    see me.

    My mom once told me about a time before my time,
    when she was blueberry picking with her first
    husband, out in Dewdney, which was at one time
    an agrarian locally-serving market community.
    They were on opposite sides of a row of cultivated
    blueberry bushes. She was yacking away, picking
    blueberries, and her husband silently followed her
    along the other side of the row.

    When they got to the end of the row and looked
    at each other, it wasn't her husband she was
    talking to -- it was a bear. They both went
    bug-eyed and scurried off in opposite directions.
    I guess a bunch of picked blueberries went airborne,
    and some labour was for nought as the Earth reclaimed
    her precious blueberries, some of which were possibly
    modified by an ursine digestive tract.

    Sometimes women have to get DH to say sumpthin',
    just to be reassured he's still there. Even if
    it takes a good zetz upside the head to snap him
    out of his reveries. I don't recommend doing that
    to a bear, though. At least, not outside of wedlock.

    Dewdney used to be one of the furthest-flung
    destinations on our old Inter-Urban trolley line.
    Now it's a place people drive through without even
    realizing what it once was. Highways killed it.
    The best rhubarb and other produce in the Lower
    Mainland came from there. Now it's just the
    side of the road.

    cheers,
    Tom

    --
    Nothing is safe from me.
    I'm really at:
    tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

  4. Tom Keats said:

    My mom once told me about a time before my time,
    when she was blueberry picking with her first
    husband, out in Dewdney, which was at one time
    an agrarian locally-serving market community.
    They were on opposite sides of a row of cultivated
    blueberry bushes. She was yacking away, picking
    blueberries, and her husband silently followed her
    along the other side of the row.

    When they got to the end of the row and looked
    at each other, it wasn't her husband she was
    talking to -- it was a bear. They both went
    bug-eyed and scurried off in opposite directions.

    Never read "Blueberries for Sal" when you were a young'un? :-)

    --

    John ([email hidden])

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