I posted on FB the other day how proud I was of myself for biking everywhere. Since moving to Thailand we have not bought a car, and we are not planning on it. Our little planned community is so small we can bike everywhere and we can even bike to the nearest mall.
The other day I biked 7 minutes to school, then after school I biked to the bank, the grocery store, walked to the seamstress and met Ahnika at her doctor's appointment- all with no car. We are all feeling responsible and "carbon footprint conscous." Fast forward one day later...
Ahnika and I came out of the market to a serious thunderstorm and a downpour! We threw our grocery bags (cloth bags, mind you) in our bike baskets and began furiously pedaling! Almost instantly I had a large raindrop in one eye and counldn't see a thing from that eye and could barely see through the rain with the other. "Go faster, Mom" Ahnika shouts at me.
The rain was warm, but there was a LOT of it. We were laughing most of the way home, squinting and enjoying the puddles that were already forming.
We pedaled home in under our usual 7 minutes and we were completely drenched.
The groceries were drenched- the paper bag of flour was wet, the cereal box we already soggy and collapsing...in 7 minutes.
Now I am from the rainy NW, but this we don't usually do our grocery shopping in the rain. So I as I was trying to salvage the flour I thought to myself, "sometimes you just gotta have a car... and a footprint."
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