Every holiday season, Mom would start on the bows. Earlier and earlier is got. Pretty soon she didn't need a holiday. It started at work. Every bike in the shop on the sales floor got a bow.
Our lot of 30 bikes had 30 bows. Some bows would switch in the morning hours. Nobody ever stole a bow. You got a free bow with a new bike purchase. The thought that one would buy a bike because of a bow is silly. But, if you got a bike, you wanted a bow.
The salesman called it an affordable luxury. I thought we should have had beers be the affordable luxury. This affordable luxury was losing it luster if all the days were put a bow on a bike day. Egg nog has a time and place. If you drink egg nog in July, it looses its luster in the same way.
To this day, you will find a bike with a bow. Everyone needs a bike and bow in their life.
About the Creator
TJ Roddy
Scientist who continues to study the botany of the US. Naturalist by training.
I AM
This is not who I thought I would be. Before my family was captured and forced into slavery, I had aspirations of becoming a wealthy business owner or possibly a scholar and philosopher. Becoming a warrior was the furthest thing from my mind. Unfortunately, our Roman conquerors had other plans.
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