I LIKE YOUR BIKE!!!!!

I don't know if you've heard, but i love bikes

always have

probably always will

a while ago i made it a practice to tell people that I like their bikes when i see them riding around. not because i necessarily like their bikes, but because i like the fact that they're riding a bike. when you're driving past someone on their bike you don't really have time for more than an "I like your bike!" christian started doing it too, and he'd tell me if he had told people he liked their bikes throughout the day. so I decided it would be fun to make a game out of it

any time we're driving in a car together the game is on.

if one of us sees someone riding a bike we have to call it first. if we see a biker at the same time and call it at the same time, neither of us gets it. this has maybe happened twice. it's not too common.

even after we've called a biker we still don't get the point until we yell "i like your bike!" loud enough for them to possibly hear us. if they're too far away no point. if you're too embarrassed to say it loud enough, no point. however, if the effort was made, and the rider happens to be wearing headphones, you get the point anyway. as long as if they hadn't been wearing headphones they probably would have heard you.

you get an extra point if they look at you after you after you call out to them. and another point if they say something back to you

in a group of bikers you get one point per person and an extra point for each person that looks at you, but only one extra point per group if they say something back to you.

while we were thinking of all the possible things that might happen this question came up. "what if we startle the rider so much that they fell off of their bike?" that would earn the caller a ten point bonus. I'm not sure if that would actually ever happen, nor would i want it to, but it's just a funny idea.

it's an on going game with no real winner. for every hundred points you earn you get to choose a food for the opposing player to hand feed to you. When you hit one hundred, your meter goes back to zero, but the other player gets to keep his or her points and play till his or her hundred mark.

christian hit his hundred mark sometime last week. I'm only at 39. I owe him a hand fed double double from In-N-Out. I'm not the most competitive person in the world, but I'm determined to get my skinless grapes fed to me well before christian gets his second set of hundred points.

there will be pictures when christian and i find time to make our way to In-N-Out and order his double double. Check in sometime soon to check them out. =)