Okay so I have a couple of hobbies that to the normal average 37 year old man, might seem a little odd, perhaps a little strange. I race bikes and I enjoy reading comic books. So what the fuck is normal anyway? I like that I'm kinda different...Yeah, okay I get it and as this is a cycling audience, we probably fail to recognize how geeky that hobby is. That's a blog for another day, hell it's probably why this blog exists. But I digress, generally speaking, these two hobbies rarely cross each others paths. Until this week.
As every self respecting comic book nerd knows, Wednesday is the day that the new books hit the newsstand. So if you are like me and following a weekly book, each Wednesday means a quick stop at the comic book shop to pick up the latest entry in whatever saga you are following.
Well this Wednesday Buddy the keg breaker, Wheelie Ted, Breyla-la and I had a nice little ride. Afterwards on the way home I figured I'd stop and pick up my books . See the ride was really cold, so I didn't bother to strip off my layers of lycra for the drive home, and I figured what the hell I'll just run in and get my books...
Err, well I must have broken some kind of super comic book store code or something, as I walked into the store, which was packed because it was Wednesday and all of the comic book geeks like me were there picking up their books, but as soon as I walked in every one of those guys turned on me. They gave me a good look down, and then the stink eye.
I wanted to say, "hey, it's a cycling kit, not a super-hero costume, I just got done exercising, that's something you haven't done since you graduated from high school..." It's not like this is a home made Ironman suit or something..."
but I didn't say a thing- you know, because I didn't want to cause a ruckus, and you know get banned from the comic book store, and you know, not be able to pick up my weekly books.... I just grabbed my comic and made way to the register and got out as fast as I could. Maybe it would have been better if I had on a cape? I can see the headline now "lycra clad cyclist beat down by superhero fans..."
So I like to read about spiderman, and black adam, it's not like I ever went to a trekie convention or something.
I am so pathetic.
Lesson learned, never cross streams. Never allow two of your geeky passions to combine. It's worlds colliding, and only bad things can happen. Like Costanza trying to eat pastrami, have sex and watch TV at the same time. Somethings just aren't meant to be mixed.
This morning saw me rising early and heading off to the bakery for another dozen donuts. We prepared for yet another fun donut ride, or queen monkey ride out of our place this morning. I didn't ride fixie today, because I was a little tired, but Slick Rik and Rotten represented.
As I left the bakery, I said to the kinda cute, yet a little scary greek girl who helped me with my pastry selections this morning, " can I have an apple fritter too?" she responded, "yes sir, in the box with the others?" to which I smiled and said, "nope, that one's for the road..." I am after all the one called faticus.
Thankfully, lots of folks showed up to help Diane and I eat the box of donuts, the group included Rik, DeeDub, LEO, Jay Jay, Rotten, Dennisbike, E-town, Gavigan, Daren, Charlie, Monkey, Papa Smurf, and me. (hope I didn't miss anyone) I guess we did ride for a couple of hours before eating them...
respect.
faticus
7 comments:
Ummmm...so what if someone you know had attended a Star Trek convention when she was in college because she thought there would be cool guys there not freaks dressed like Tom Baker in Dr. Who and Klingons? Huh? What are saying? I might have to ask you to step outside. As soon as the Trek marathon is over.
Dude that's too funny. As a recovered comic book nerd I had completely forgotten that Wed. is the day. You need to wear your kit to the next ComiCon and see what sort of reaction you get.
may a wager a bet that DduB did not partake in the donut eating?
Actually Meg....I think I physically pushed Diane out of the way to get to those little fat rings of joy. Hell yeah I had one, chocolate with jimmies. Thanks Marc and Di.
Meg, see you at the swap.
ddub
doom , what wisdom..
if tv is on, some men cannot help but watch even during sex...not that that ever happened to ME :)
Marc, to comic book geeks, cycling geeks are cool guys, the jocks. It's all kind of relative. Wear a plaid flannel shirt to a law office, people assume you can fix the plumbing. In my case, it's true, but that's beside the point.
IFChicks - men are visually-oriented. *Of course* we watch TV, especially if there's something on that appeals to the other things we're inclined to do - sports, violence, or teh funny. We are hardwired for it and no amount of software migration can 'fix' that. (It's not fixable, it's a feature, not a bug). You want to mess with a guy and see his wiring melt down like a computer in bad 70's sci-fi? Have sex while there's something involving sex on the TV and a bucket of cold beers nearby. 'Does not compute... too many inputs... cannot choose...' I wish I was joking about this.
Dude, I don't know if you'll ever read this because of how old it is, but that is clearly a home made War Machine costume, not Iron Man. Now, you could argue that Tony Stark built that suit as well, so it is kind of an Iron Man suit, but you would be wrong. Anyway, the best part of that picture is that the guy is so fatm that his rolls are flopping out from underneath
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