P.J. O'Rourke, WSJ:
"The bicycle is a parody of a wheeled vehicle - a donkey cart without the cart, where you do the work of the donkey. Although the technology necessary to build a bicycle has been around since ancient Egypt, bikes didn't appear until the 19th century. The reason it took mankind 5,000 years to get the idea for the bicycle is that it was a bad idea. The bicycle is the only method of conveyance worse than feet. You can walk up three flights of stairs carrying one end of a sofa. Try that on a bicycle."H/T joesherlock
I once took out a pedestrian who wobbled into my path on Franklin St. in Chapel Hill. We shared an ambulance ride to the hospital during which she awoke five or six times only to ask "What happened?". The answer during each of her cyclical bouts with lucidity was a clinical, "You were struck by a bicyclist Ma'am."
I never saw her again after admittance to the hospital.
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