For the past year and a half, I have been riding my bike to work and parking it in this bike space. I ride it there and park in that space all through the year, not just the summer. Sometimes, on minus five degree mornings, I struggle to make my frozen fingers wrap my bike lock around the bike bar. I've been through a lot in that space. So, a few weeks ago, when the warm weather started and the fair weather cyclists began riding to work, I was a little miffed to discover the pictured bike parked in my bike space. But I breathed in the anger and breathed out calm acceptance of other cyclists and made my way to the showers. . .where I discovered that the rider of said bike was USING MY SECTION OF THE BATHROOM. It's the same section I use every day because it's close to the mirror and the paper towel dispenser that I need to use through the winter when the extreme cold makes my nose run. And she was just calmly standing near my part of the pannier bench, USING MY MIRROR TO DO HER HAIR WITH A HAIR STRAIGHTENER!! And then she had the gall to smile at me and say good morning. So now we play a cunning game of cat and mouse (well, okay, maybe I'm the only one of the two of us who is actually aware we are playing it) to see who can get to work first to get to the parking space and bathroom space first. She may have won today, but we have plenty of time. . .
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