bike boots

today i was so motivated in dressing a little sassier to work today and threw on my hot pink, 3 or 4 inch heel boots.  and by hot i mean the color, like  hot pink and hot like sexy and hot like, well, they were actually hot on me today because shockingly it was 91 degrees F in santa monica today, so whatever with this weather on the first of this pumpkin month... I wore my hot pink boots to work today but rode my bike to work this am with nothing on. no, not nothing-nothing- no shoes or socks.  barefoot.  (i like riding with naked feet so straight away after getting this bike i got beach-y barefoot peddles put on) like summer, except this morning was nice and nippy, like a nice autumn, first of october day should be, not hot like i just mentioned which is how it got later, it sure was hot this afternoon while i went outside to read in the shade, sheesh!  so my friend, the tsunami genius from earlier, whose advice i take way more than i should but have a hard time filtering, thought it'd be fine to ride home on my bike in my boots, not IN my boots but with my boots on.  so i did.  everything was fine until i started thinking about if i stopped and the repercussions that may occur with my occasional child-like skid i do while wearing tennis shoes. or, as we chicagoans like to say, gym shoes. i mean, these boots i've had for years, they're cheap and have a slick-ish bottom, no traction.   i get to a light.  its red. i begin to break carefully, no skidding and stop.  the light turns green and as i begin to peddle my heel goes into the slit in the peddle.  i go to pull my foot out and up to get a little more oomph in peddling quicker across this major intersection and my heel is stuck....but just for a moment in real time and in my head a moment or three longer than that.  it happens again, and once more. then there's no more lifting of the foot up and out. it is still. and the short remainder of my bike ride continues on smoothly. hooray.   
 

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