Strange coincidence!
Now here’s an absolutely weird coincidence.
About 5:30 this morning I answered a request from the SF/F fan magazine ConNotations for a little update, and among other things, I said
“ . . . . I’ve recovered enough from last year’s surgery to go on this year’s “Ride to Remember” in central Florida next week, but I’m taking the shortest route, twenty-some miles. Last month I was a gofer volunteer in Bike Florida, staying off the bike but making about 500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while standing under a tent flap in the rain.
“When we say ‘Go gators!’ it’s not about the Florida football team. It means to get them damned alligators off the trail!”
About an hour later I picked up the morning paper and sat down to breakfast. In the Local News section was a story “Bicyclist seriously injured after alligator shows up on trail.” A guy was biking down the Hawthorne Trail Sunday night, and an alligator alongside the trail struck at his tire. He flew over the handlebars and was seriously injured. Apparently the alligator did not close in to finish him off.
It’s the first alligator attack recorded on the trail, which dates back to the 1850’s.
Think I’ll write a blog now about being the first person in history to win the Florida State Lottery without buying a ticket.
Joe
About 5:30 this morning I answered a request from the SF/F fan magazine ConNotations for a little update, and among other things, I said
“ . . . . I’ve recovered enough from last year’s surgery to go on this year’s “Ride to Remember” in central Florida next week, but I’m taking the shortest route, twenty-some miles. Last month I was a gofer volunteer in Bike Florida, staying off the bike but making about 500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while standing under a tent flap in the rain.
“When we say ‘Go gators!’ it’s not about the Florida football team. It means to get them damned alligators off the trail!”
About an hour later I picked up the morning paper and sat down to breakfast. In the Local News section was a story “Bicyclist seriously injured after alligator shows up on trail.” A guy was biking down the Hawthorne Trail Sunday night, and an alligator alongside the trail struck at his tire. He flew over the handlebars and was seriously injured. Apparently the alligator did not close in to finish him off.
It’s the first alligator attack recorded on the trail, which dates back to the 1850’s.
Think I’ll write a blog now about being the first person in history to win the Florida State Lottery without buying a ticket.
Joe
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