WWJD?

This morning I had a 90 minute ride scheduled in my endurance zone. Easy peezy. The weather was slightly overcast and temperate = lovely riding weather. Since work started at 10, I figured I would be on the road by 7:30, back by 9, showered, coiffed, and prepared with plenty of time to spare. A lovely AM ride. What could be a better way to start a Tuesday?

I calculated my route: with rush hour traffic heading INTO town, I would take the "back door" out of town through Summerfield, heading onto Scalesville where it started at Oak Ridge Rd.

Bad idea.

Without going into specifics, let's just say that I could feel the hatred radiating at me from cars eager to blow by and get to their offices. I morphed from a human being to some sort of evil bicycle conglomorated being whose sole purpose in the universe was to make them a few seconds later to work than they would otherwise have been. I endured 5 buzzes (one of them a hand's breadth of my handlebars), seven angry car honks (4 paired with said buzzes), and one ranting monologue which of course will forever remain a smattering of shouted noise and hand waives.

Irony of ironies? It occurred on a thoroughfare aptly named Pleasant Ridge Road.

This is not the first encounter, nor the first post, to deal with road aggression against cyclists. We have already lost too many valuable members of the community to this ridiculous symptom of entitlement (I WANT TO GET THERE NOW!) that so completely permeates our society.

What puzzled me as I continued my ride, being completely safe on the entirety of Scalesville, Church, and 150, was that most of the cars, I kid you not, had some sort of Christian connotation on them. Either a fish or a WWJD sticker or a church affiliation. Which got me thinking. What WOULD Jesus do?

He would ride a fricking bicycle, that's what.

Think about it. You are the son of God. Your father MADE the earth. Would you really contribute to its destruction by riding around in a gas guzzling car? No way. Your ass would be grass. Jesus would have a sweet fixie.

I would love to get a Jersey made that says in big bold letters on the front "WWJD?" And on the back, "Jesus would commute by bike."

I'm not a religious person. But if I were, I think that God the Father would totally approve.

And Jesus the Son would be like, "Dude! I'm on a jersey!"