Murphy!

3:43 PM 2012/01/22 (still Sunday)

So I went for my bike ride today.  Like a fool, I pumped up my nearly flat back tire, found it to be holding ok, and away I went.  After I'd been gone a few minutes, it seemed ok, I kept going.

I went to the Cattle Dock Point Road.  Nearly at the end you pass a water reclamation facility.  Even nearer to the end, you come to - you guessed it - a No Trespassing sign.  No sign of cattle or docks.

The highlight was a large lake a short way out the road, with no No Trespassing signs, and access.  I saw a large crane, and a fish jumped, but no gators.

I started back home, decided to take the bike trail down toward Rotunda, turned off on Ingraham Blvd., and got lost.  It was about then that I noticed that my back tire was going flat.  By the time I found Rotunda Blvd. East, I was biking on a completely flat tire.  I biked all the way around Boundary Blvd., to Rotunda Blvd. North.  And walked from there home - too much traffic to bike with a flat tire.

I was gone about 2 hours.  I reckon it should have taken 1 1/4 hour max, with inflated tires.

A second redeeming feature was a couple of young fellers out on skateboard / roller blades, with shirts off, as I was walking up Rotunda North; they commiserated over my flat.  I didn't have a camera.

All the way along, but especially after I started walking, I kept thinking that probability theory is crap; Murphy had it right!

rg