filling the gaps

joan of arc vs good times goin' downhill

People are still paying me

I don’t get it.

I know nothing about what it’s like to be them. How could I? Sure I’ve had some ‘training’ as a therapist but training has very little to do with reality.

Despite this?

People come to me and ask me to help them understand themselves better.

What fools!

Whatever.

They pay me. I try.

Yesterday while walking the wrong way on 26¹, my client commented on Zeke’s trail signs.

They’re there because there are a lot of people who think it’s more fun to ride uphill than go down. That’s a problem. These trails were built to go down, not up. There’s a perfectly good uphill trail that’s an easier climb. These are made for jumping.

My client paused:

You mean that your friends have made illegal trails on private land and they have the nerve to dictate how they get ridden on a bike?

Yup.

I continued:

We like gravity. It’s fun to bounce around and jump. Other people like grinding uphill more than jumping. So in addition to putting everyone at risk by riding up a trail we cou…