5 October 08
Princess Promenade
The second annual “Princess Promenade” — a bike ride for women and girls to try and get them to exercise — was held today along the American River Parkway in Sacramento. Numenius was a bike radio mobile and I was a shadow radio operator for the director, which meant I saw a lot of pink tutus and tiaras, saw gals coming back in saying this was the furthest they had ever ridden, got to witness the horror of a teenager who had thrown her retainer in the trash which had then been emptied and had to tell her I didn’t know where they’d taken the bags. She really was prepared to paw through dumpsters…
As I write the Red Sox and Angels are tied at four. Hoping the Sox put this one away tonight…
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Very cool that you were the “shadow” again this year.
Re “teenager who had thrown her retainer in the trash “. Ouch! We have this happen a few times a year at school. We have had parents go through many bags of trash (usually from the cafeteria with the remnants of lunch — YUCK) looking for it. AND occasionally they DO find the retainer!
Like many situations, there is always HOPE and occasionally success, but not always.
Glad I wear mine only to bed—the damned things would be impossible to find because they’re transparent. Obviously not something I had a choice about, or they’d glow in the dark.
When I was a teenager, my brother accidentally tossed his retainer out while at school – it was School Lunch Day, which meant that all the kids had brown bag lunches (instead of the usual lunch from home). My mother is (a) thrifty and (b) stubborn, so the three of us went through practically every single lunch bag in the dumpster to find it.
(Which we did.)