"I Want to Ride my Bicycle"

Well, I slept about 11 hours last night. Very nice, but a little unnecessary probably. It's a beautiful sunny day outside now, but is likely freezing nonetheless (my weather widget informs me that it is 47.1 degrees). Now what to write about...

Something I've noticed around campus is the large number of bicycles. Outside of every building you can find bikes tied up to anything from a bike rack to a large dog (I have yet to see the latter). Bikes can be incredibly convenient, as they allow you to quickly get from point A to point B without waiting for the bus, hurting your feet, or accepting quartercards (those cards handed out by people to advertise). You do have to find a bike rack or column to tie it up to, but that's not too much of an issue considering that bike racks are more common than trash cans here (we have about 2 trashcans on campus... or so it seems whenever you have to throw something away). But this brings me to my haiku:

Why bring bicycles
When they're only safe to use
For a month or two


So you go through all of the trouble of bringing your bike, and then you're all like "yay! I'm lazy and can quickly and antisocially get from class to class!" Then a month later it snows and you're all like "damnit" and have to walk like a normal person or take the bus like a normal lazy person. And so now you're stuck with a hunk of metal and need to keep it in your dorm room so that it doesn't rust and people will come into your dorm room and be like "pfft, nice bike, dork" and you'll be like "shut up jerk" and you'll regret having your bike. Also, something worth noticing is that the number of bikes on north campus (aka freshmen land) is greater than the number around any other part of campus. What does this tell us? Maybe that bikes are something freshmen bring and then realize that it's a silly and unnecessary commodity (no way!)?

Title is from the Queen song "Bicycle."