To: labiker@gholam.ph.ucla.edu Subject: LABiker: Thanks, Sammy! Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 03:48:34 -0400 From: gayathri Hey, just wanted to thank Sammy for calling the Ride to the Road Gods. I hear we raised a good amount of money for the Search and Rescue Crew. Kathryn came by (something about being my bitch for the day, :-p) and we suited her up in my way too large Tourmaster. Gosh, she's tiny.. and we headed out! Got to the Shell Station and saw absolutely a MILLION people. WEll, ok, more like 30... (MarcS, I hope you got everyone's names!) but it was an "Ohmigod! Handsome TOM! SmoothHeadFred! MEL! JimD! TONyA?!" kind of reaction for me. Then I bundled Katheryn back up in her snowsuit and we headed off. For some reason I thought folks had left already, 'til I realized "oops, that was Sammy back there..." Well, I figured folks would head up and catch up.. toodle along as a CHiPpie in a Explorer comes by... (*keeps it at a dreaded 45 mph. damn. this is .. um.. ) Head up the hill after he turns off in a housing complex, and try and keep it slow. Second passing section, I decide that Kathryn needs to see some squidly behaviour out of Huckleberry and roll it on in the straight, llook down to see 65mph indicated just as I catch view of the police cruiser, now turning to pull in behind me. *DAMN IT!* I wonder what Kathryn will thinkwhen I run from him 'cause if I'm gonna get pulled over, its not going to be for being lame on the straight and going 60ish miles per hour... Yea, Maybe I can get on TV! helicopters following me as I zoom up the crest risking life and limb to get away from the police officer who's just radio'd on ahead... *wakes up to reality* Slows down* putts along. I see RickD and JimD behind me, as we putt along at 45 mph waiting for him to either pull us over or get bored. takes him about 7 miles to get bored. Bastard. End up catching up to this overly furr'd bike with Jeniffer on the back, and then to a orange SuperHawk with Squish on it.. and get up to Newcomb's. I'm so hungry I could eat the tables. FOOD! food! we yell to the waitress. ('course, Kathryn couldnt hear us yelling. but she appreciated the efforts.) Soon, Dominique, her friend from FL, TonyA, BrianP, Kathryn and I are _scarfing_ down our breakfasts... and i manage to get an ice cube down Jeniffer's pants. Then we waste HOURS schmoozing in the parking lot, and in the bathrooms, and in the bar... and people head out. I convince RickD and Squidboy (not hard to do) to go down to Upper Big T, Angeles Forest, Aliso Canyon, Soledad, Sand Canyon... the plan was to then take lower T, Angeles Forest, back tot he Crest and home, but Sand Canyon was SOCKED in with fog and it was CHILLY and *doh* foggy, and I didnt want to ride in more of that. So now its raining here in East Pasadena/San Gabriel... and after watching the Kayalami races on SpeedVision, and then The Sopranos, I think its time for bed... thanks again, Sammy (and thanks for playing Kryptonite and BrownEye'd Girl on Friday too. :) Gayathri >-------------------------------------------------------------- gayathri@world.std.com Calamari Club #002, CCS/WSMC #98 '88 FZR400 ('gurlzbike') '98 T595 Daytona, "huckleberry" "If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come." - Chinese Proverb