Today was an odd day. But let me backtrack and begin by saying that I wish I had a camera on my phone to have documented the view from my bike this morning. A toasted melted my cell phone last year, which left me with a cheap-o, camera-free phone. I swear, the toaster ate my nice camera-cell phone. But I digress.
5:45am, the Moots and I depart our Berkeley garage for some intervals on Tunnel Road. Birds are chirping, commuters are still sleeping, and Olivia (Ms. Moots) and I are bonding for our first real ride since Kern. Bliss.
We turn onto Old Tunnel Road, a standard climb for us East Bay folks. What a lovely day. I swerve to avoid a well-worn toilet bowl which lies alongside the road. Weird. I assume it has mistakenly fallen out of a construction truck hauling debris from a new home construction up on the hill. 
But then, 100m later, on the left-hand side of the road, I see no less than 30 toilet bowls strewn in the brush along the hillside. Who had the nerve to use Old Tunnel Road as a dumping ground (no pun intended...)? I was pissed.
About 2 hours later, I found myself on the baseball field of my school, living through a real-life bomb threat. A teacher arrived at school this morning with a document open on her computer which read that a bomb would be going off within 10 minutes of when the students arrived. We calmly ushered the entire school out onto the baseball field while the bomb squad did their duties. Nothing was found. But there is a prime suspect among the 8th graders. Our vice principal is amazing. That woman can solve any crime. Working with her is like being on the set of CSI. Please don't offer me her job...
Yep. It sure was an odd day.
7 comments:
i went up tunnel yesterday at lunch. no toilets! must have been dumped last night.
we get a lot of people dumping stuff on butters. one time morgan hid on his bike and watched a truck mill around looking like it was about to dump.
but bomb threats! yikes!
i remember a bomb threat at my high school. everyone got evacuated.
it was little strange, cus earlier that day people had been asking me what it was that i was carrying around. kiddingly, I told them it was a bomb. really it was just my electronics project....
i got in a bit of trouble. not because of the electronics project thing....but because i skipped out during the evacution and never went back to class...
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it was all pretty much fun and games in those days.
a little more serious in today's world, unfortunately.
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how did the intervals go? recovering from Kern yet?
At least if you needed a pee stop you had plenty of options... Today will be my first post-Kern real ride, hope the 'ole legs are up for it! Last year I *never* receovered from Kern so I made sure to take more time off this year. Hope it works :)
How did you feel?
correction...they're actually sinks. yesterday in my post-kern stupor, i didn't notice.
but today i was more awake!
wow - bomb threats - no fun!
I hate the dumping thing. On the climb up Mt. Hamilton, a little before Grant Ranch, there is a place off the side of the road where people dump any manner of things. It is sad. For the amount of time it takes them to haul the stuff up there, they may as well go to the dump and pay the $20. Sigh.
It sounds like your blissful start to the day got messed up in a hurry. That stinks.
Whoa.....that's a ton of sinks to be throwing off on the side of the road! What did Olivia say when she saw them???
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