Stupid Story

I wore just my spandex bike shorts today.  It's rare that I do that.  I usually put on shorts on top for some reason.  It's odd in the cyclist world to do that, but I do.  I'm such a rebel, and not a trend setter. 

I guess the spandex do my legs justice though.  Several people in Miami said I had nice/strong calves/legs. So did someone in my high school... but still I'm not 100% used to rocking spandex.

Anyway, wearing them today made me think of short shorts.

Short Shorts is now reminding me of that stupid "Who wears short shorts?" commercial and the 1970's NBA.

However, before the ride today it reminded me of something Georgie said.

Somehow Georgie, I and another player were talking and somehow short shorts came up in conversation.   I believe Georgie said something like, "Guys can wear short shorts, you know, like the ones Tim sometimes wears at practice."

I was too shocked to say anything. 

My dad wore short shorts for the LONGEST TIME.  It was so embarrassing, especially his motto "I don't follow trends, I set them."  The ones he wore were even shorter than the ones NBA players wore in 1970.  He was really late on following the new trend of not scaring people away by wearing longer shorts.   Anyway, my dad's short shorts were just one of the reasons that I always tried to AVOID short shorts. 

Here I am listening to Georgie tell someone that I wear short shorts.  I said nothing but my mind was panicking. 

"Someone thinks you wear short shorts?  Holy $%&%  we need to find those now.  What shorts do I wear that are short?  Which ones are she talking about?  Are they the grey NIKE ones with a C?  Those aren't short!  Are they?  She must mean the ones I got in 2009, the blue NIKE's.   Those are sort of short I guess, but they are soccer ones.  They aren't short, but I guess they are the shortest ones I have that I wear to practice."

'RTP, Regardless, when you get home later you need to find those short shorts and put them aside and never wear them again'

I put those two pairs of shorts aside and never wore them again to practice.  I also went and bought two new pairs of NIKE shorts soon after.  I'm sure my mom saw them and went "You, don't need new shorts, you have plenty of shorts."

"Mom, you just don't understand.  I need these new shorts."


I was recently told that my legs are an "asset" by someone, so I guess if anyone would look good in shorts that aren't long (not short shorts, I will never wear those...more like medium shorts, like soccer shorts) it would be me. 

Which brings me back to my biking, which I love so much.  On a ride you get bored and think about random things.  I thought about insuring my legs.  Then I went "nah, that sounds stupid, win the lottery first."

And to end this post on something completely different than what I started.  Completely different (now to all you English majors this is how you write a great ending).   When I was cycling the 120 miles lots of things crossed my mind.  Lots of people I'm sure.  One thing happened that I didn't understand though.  Around the 40 mile mark Eifel 65's "Blue ah ba dee" got stuck in my head.  I have not heard, nor listened to that song since sixth grade, and for good reason.  It's too bad I couldn't have been waterboarded instead of listening to that.