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Well yesterday was absolutely crap.
I cycled down to an event that I saw advertised by a particular local councillor that I had been wanting to have a chat with. Only about a 13 km ride, so should be no big deal.
Unfortunately, it was wet, and rounding a corner at one point my wheel slipped out from under me and I crashed. Got a nasty gash in my elbow and a less nasty one on my ankle, but the worst thing is I landed directly on my phone. It’s now completely buggered.
I had stuck thongs in my bidon cage to change into (from clip-in cycling shoes) once I got there. So I walked the last 4 km in thongs. Do not recommend.
And the kicker? I finally arrived and she wasn’t even there.
Thongs in the bidon cage, can't get more Aussie than that!
I remember getting a flat, and having no shoes. Wasn't going to walk back in cleats so decided to go barefoot. Bad blisters after less than a km. I can't imagine what walking 4kms in thongs would do. Hope they're not too bad today.
Yeah I thought it was pretty clever when I came up with it. Normally I'd put closed shoes in a backpack, but I wanted to avoid the sweaty back from having a backpack. This was the first time I didn't do that. Had I had a backpack, I probably would've put my phone in it too and not broken it. Same if I'd worn a cycling jersey and used the back pocket.
The 4 km in thongs was certainly not fun. Slightly injured my foot as a result. But I can't imagine having to do it barefoot!
In retrospect I should've gotten back on the bike, once the rain stopped (which it did fairly early on into my walk). Would've been a lot quicker and saved a lot of strife. Ah well.
Hope the barefoot walk was on a colder day? Can't imagine doing that in Summer.
Going through rhetorical hell, and she doesn't have the decency to stay and say "Hello". I'd be pissed as well.
It may be ironic^*^ that had you driven, you would have avoided the crash and the missed opportunity
^*^ - depending on the event, and the topic of the chat.
... So superscript either doesn't work, or I've formatted it wrong.
... Nope, third option - Voyager doesn't display it correctly.
Yeah, the irony was not lost on me. I probably would have missed the opportunity already, I suspect she had probably left the event an hour before I even left home if she was there at all.
And yeah, display of super- and subscript on Lemmy is an issue. Jerboa doesn't display them at all either, and even the web UI doesn't display correctly over whitespace.