Morning Lizards!

They say you have to love your siblings, but you don’t have to like them.

My sister is bitching on FB about those awful cyclists shutting down the downtown of a nearby town, and holding a bicycle race, and how she feels bad for the poor residents of the town, inconvenienced for 4-5 whole hours on one Saturday morning during the whole fucking year.

I took part in the setup and teardown of the Burlingame Criterium for several years back in the early 00’s, and I can tell you, we got there in the dark, worked assiduously to make the course safe for racers, spectators, and residents, then spent hours standing in the sun as marshals to keep folks safe, then as soon as the last race ended we worked like dogs to make the whole place look as it if had never happened. Most of the downtown businesses not only welcomed the Crit, they actually sponsored it. The all claimed they got a lot more business that morning than a usual Sunday. Of course there was one business that bitched and moaned. We did what we could to mollify them, but you’re never gonna make some people happy.

Now my sister is turning into one of those cranky old farts who yell at clouds. Sheesh.