Open Thread

bicycles are lovely in the country, or on Governor’s Island, or on quiet residential streets, but it is nutty to ride a bike at rush hour on crowded city streets where people are driving massive steel vehicles bumper to bumper and are driving them from a position nine feet above your helmet. Some of these truckers could run you over and think they hit a squirrel.
I know two people who have been killed, that’s killed, as in “kingdom come”, riding bikes in Manhattan. I dunno, it is one of those things like marathon running that seems to produce so many injuries and fatalities but is nevertheless considered “good for you”. Are we a masochistic society?

Biff,

When I was in the insurance Biz there is a company named ALTA Health and they wanted to establish with us so they sent over a bunch of quote/packages and frankly, they were ridiculous.

So I got back on the phone with the rep who is an older Jewish man and we were going back and forth discussing it blah, blah, blah, he wouldn’t budge.

Finally I blurted, “ALTA, this is CACA.”

He totally got it. Laughed hysterical and got us better packages.

Just get out of a meeting, Biff? Did you accomplish anything???

I wondered that too etson. She was planning some business trip with hubby so maybe she is just not checking in on us.

Long TBT.