AG: Riding is Communication
I had a conversation on the road Saturday: I was riding down a lightly-traveled county road when I saw a pick-up truck coming toward me, and a car in my mirror. So I turned my head as if looking back, then shifted toward the middle of my half of the road. Once the truck was past, I looked back again and shifted to the edge of the pavement. The car promptly overtook me properly. In English: Me: Oops, it's not safe to pass right now. Driver: Now that you mention it, I can see that. Me: Now it's safe. Driver: So it is. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
AG: Riding is Communication
On 6/21/2015 7:53 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
I had a conversation on the road Saturday: I was riding down a lightly-traveled county road when I saw a pick-up truck coming toward me, and a car in my mirror. So I turned my head as if looking back, then shifted toward the middle of my half of the road. Once the truck was past, I looked back again and shifted to the edge of the pavement. The car promptly overtook me properly. In English: Me: Oops, it's not safe to pass right now. Driver: Now that you mention it, I can see that. Me: Now it's safe. Driver: So it is. Beautiful! It's sad that so many people think that's impossible. -- - Frank Krygowski |
AG: On being overtaken
Always check your mirror immediately after a motor vehicle passes you. There might be another hidden in its noise. That includes low-flying airplanes! (Luckily, the driver of the truck that I didn't see saw me. After that I looked back every time the cropduster passed.) -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
AG: Twist-ties
(written 24 June 2015)
I solved a problem with twist-ties yesterday. I stopped at a fruit market, where I bought a bag of Jonagold apples and, for lunch, a ham sandwich and a small bag of potato chips. As usual, I ate only half my lunch. (I ate all of the taco salad that I bought for supper, and lived to regret it.) The sandwich was no problem; I re-wrapped it in the sheet of plastic it had come in and put it beside the bottle of ice in my cooler. But I had no clothespin to close the potato-chip bag, and there was no use in searching my pockets for a paper clip: I'd inventoried my pockets before the ride. (Gets up to string a couple of paper clips on the safety pin in my emergency bag.) Perhaps if I wrap the bag around the remaining chips instead of rolling it down -- that works, but if I wedge it in tightly enough to keep the bag from unrolling, I'll crush the chips. What I need is a piece of string. There was a little paper bobbin of linespun-linen carpet thread in the first-aid kit in the lost toolkit. I'll never see linespun linen again, but upon thought, I do have some pre-wound "bobbins" (they are actually cakes of thread, so wound as to hold their shape with no actual bobbin) of nylon sewing thread. (Gets up to pop one into a "pill pouch" (mini zip-lock bag) and add it to emergency kit.) Then I remembered that I had a sheet of twist-ties in my memo-book case, peeled off four, hooked them end-to-end, secured my potato chips, and tossed them into a pannier. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
AG: Twist-ties
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 01:19:19 -0300, Joy Beeson
wrote: (written 24 June 2015) I solved a problem with twist-ties yesterday. I stopped at a fruit market, where I bought a bag of Jonagold apples and, for lunch, a ham sandwich and a small bag of potato chips. As usual, I ate only half my lunch. (I ate all of the taco salad that I bought for supper, and lived to regret it.) The sandwich was no problem; I re-wrapped it in the sheet of plastic it had come in and put it beside the bottle of ice in my cooler. But I had no clothespin to close the potato-chip bag, and there was no use in searching my pockets for a paper clip: I'd inventoried my pockets before the ride. (Gets up to string a couple of paper clips on the safety pin in my emergency bag.) Perhaps if I wrap the bag around the remaining chips instead of rolling it down -- that works, but if I wedge it in tightly enough to keep the bag from unrolling, I'll crush the chips. What I need is a piece of string. There was a little paper bobbin of linespun-linen carpet thread in the first-aid kit in the lost toolkit. I'll never see linespun linen again, but upon thought, I do have some pre-wound "bobbins" (they are actually cakes of thread, so wound as to hold their shape with no actual bobbin) of nylon sewing thread. (Gets up to pop one into a "pill pouch" (mini zip-lock bag) and add it to emergency kit.) Then I remembered that I had a sheet of twist-ties in my memo-book case, peeled off four, hooked them end-to-end, secured my potato chips, and tossed them into a pannier. I tried plastic "wire ties", or "cable ties" they are sometimes called. Bad Move. They are impossible to get loose without a knife or a pair of shears :-) I've been using rubber bands, or just throwing the half bag of chips away :-) -- cheers, John B. |
AG: Twist-ties
John B. wrote in
: On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 01:19:19 -0300, Joy Beeson wrote: (written 24 June 2015) I solved a problem with twist-ties yesterday. I stopped at a fruit market, where I bought a bag of Jonagold apples and, for lunch, a ham sandwich and a small bag of potato chips. As usual, I ate only half my lunch. (I ate all of the taco salad that I bought for supper, and lived to regret it.) The sandwich was no problem; I re-wrapped it in the sheet of plastic it had come in and put it beside the bottle of ice in my cooler. But I had no clothespin to close the potato-chip bag, and there was no use in searching my pockets for a paper clip: I'd inventoried my pockets before the ride. (Gets up to string a couple of paper clips on the safety pin in my emergency bag.) Perhaps if I wrap the bag around the remaining chips instead of rolling it down -- that works, but if I wedge it in tightly enough to keep the bag from unrolling, I'll crush the chips. What I need is a piece of string. There was a little paper bobbin of linespun-linen carpet thread in the first-aid kit in the lost toolkit. I'll never see linespun linen again, but upon thought, I do have some pre-wound "bobbins" (they are actually cakes of thread, so wound as to hold their shape with no actual bobbin) of nylon sewing thread. (Gets up to pop one into a "pill pouch" (mini zip-lock bag) and add it to emergency kit.) Then I remembered that I had a sheet of twist-ties in my memo-book case, peeled off four, hooked them end-to-end, secured my potato chips, and tossed them into a pannier. I tried plastic "wire ties", or "cable ties" they are sometimes called. Bad Move. They are impossible to get loose without a knife or a pair of shears :-) I've been using rubber bands, or just throwing the half bag of chips away :-) I use Bulldog Clips (paper clamps) to hold chip bags closed. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
AG: On being overtaken
On 6/28/2015 12:12 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:
Always check your mirror immediately after a motor vehicle passes you. There might be another hidden in its noise. Yep. That's precisely the reason I began using an eyeglass mirror, way back in the 1970s, when they were even weirder than they are now! That includes low-flying airplanes! (Luckily, the driver of the truck that I didn't see saw me. After that I looked back every time the cropduster passed.) Cropduster? I hope you were holding your breath! -- - Frank Krygowski |
AG: Twist-ties
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:29:21 +0100, Phil W Lee
wrote: John B. considered Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:55:46 +0700 the perfect time to write: On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 01:19:19 -0300, Joy Beeson wrote: (written 24 June 2015) I solved a problem with twist-ties yesterday. I stopped at a fruit market, where I bought a bag of Jonagold apples and, for lunch, a ham sandwich and a small bag of potato chips. As usual, I ate only half my lunch. (I ate all of the taco salad that I bought for supper, and lived to regret it.) The sandwich was no problem; I re-wrapped it in the sheet of plastic it had come in and put it beside the bottle of ice in my cooler. But I had no clothespin to close the potato-chip bag, and there was no use in searching my pockets for a paper clip: I'd inventoried my pockets before the ride. (Gets up to string a couple of paper clips on the safety pin in my emergency bag.) Perhaps if I wrap the bag around the remaining chips instead of rolling it down -- that works, but if I wedge it in tightly enough to keep the bag from unrolling, I'll crush the chips. What I need is a piece of string. There was a little paper bobbin of linespun-linen carpet thread in the first-aid kit in the lost toolkit. I'll never see linespun linen again, but upon thought, I do have some pre-wound "bobbins" (they are actually cakes of thread, so wound as to hold their shape with no actual bobbin) of nylon sewing thread. (Gets up to pop one into a "pill pouch" (mini zip-lock bag) and add it to emergency kit.) Then I remembered that I had a sheet of twist-ties in my memo-book case, peeled off four, hooked them end-to-end, secured my potato chips, and tossed them into a pannier. I tried plastic "wire ties", or "cable ties" they are sometimes called. Bad Move. They are impossible to get loose without a knife or a pair of shears :-) Not if you get the reusable ones with the longer locking tab - easy to flick open with a fingernail, and last almost forever. I don't believe I ever saw such a thing.... not to say that they don't exist, of course, as I am not really a major user of cable ties. I've been using rubber bands, or just throwing the half bag of chips away :-) I also have a resealable sandwich bag in my normal kit, so could use that as an alternative. -- cheers, John B. |
AG: Twist-ties
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:29:21 +0100, Phil W Lee
wrote: I also have a resealable sandwich bag in my normal kit, so could use that as an alternative. And I had a snack bag full of sandwich bags in the cooler! I wonder whether I'd have remembered that if I hadn't figured out how to close the potato-chip bag. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
AG: On being overtaken
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 11:24:13 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: Cropduster? I hope you were holding your breath! I don't think he was actually dusting crops -- they were the wrong kind of crops, for one thing -- but he was flying back and forth in a cropdusterly manner. Perhaps sight-seeing, or practicing turns -- or trying not to get too far from the airstrip before it was his turn to land, though I don't know of any airstrips in that area. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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