Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 03, 2014

I was given a beat-up bike at age 8 and told to learn to ride it. “Yell if you hurt yourself.” Best way to learn how in my opinion.

I had the pedaling part without falling over down pat right away, I just couldn’t get started from a dead stop.I’d lean the bike against a tree (or a parked car) and push off.

I don’t get the difference between the two scenarios

I learned to ride so young that the bike was too close to the ground to get hurt if you fell. Apparently I was also a hipster at 4 years old, as it was also a “fixie”!

Thanks for the trip down memory street. :-)

Answers: No, and no.

Answers: No and no.

Taught my son to ride on the baseball diamond. Why? Psychology. “Falling in the dirt won’t hurt as much as on the sidewalk”. Took for hours before he felt solid enough to ride on the concrete.

I’m glad I got to teach him, but would have been just as proud if he learned on his own.

why ask people who have no children??? might as well ask a deaf person how they like Mozart.

When I was in my twenties, my mother finally confessed that for a while she was worried about me being slow on the uptake, because I professed a belief in Santa Claus until I was about twelve..She was amused when I told her I had caught on to the Santa myth when I about five — but I thought she believed in him, so I pretended to as well to prevent her disappointment at learning he didn’t exist..Sort of like a 1950s version of “The Abilene Paradox,” I guess.

My daughter wanted me to take the training wheels off her tetracycle. I told her if I di, I wasn’t putting them back on. After a few seconds, she decided she wanted them on. A month later, same request, same answer, but she was ready. Never had any problem with a bicycle thereafter; even did a bit of unicycle riding – onstage.

I got taken to the top of a hill and got pushed down. Repeatedly. I learned real fast after hitting a tree.