Hi John,

I wanted to tell you a little anecdote.

I often ride a bike in the morning for exercise.

My only conflict with cars has been with contractors in pick-up trucks in a hurry going to a work site. They rarely want to slow down for a bicyclist.

The October that the Red Sox won the Series I decided to wear a Red Sox ball cap

not knowing that this would have any effect on guys going to work.

Well, it did,  I sailed through all the intersections with guys waving and saluting.

it was as if the Red Seas parted.

I also grew up in Central Connecticut in a neighborhood that literally half the kids were Red Sox fans and half the kids were Yankee fans. We had to listen to the Yankee fans year after year after year. 1978 was just the worst ever. *#&*$ Bucky Dent! I married someone who grew up in a family that were rabid Red Sox fans and he actually switched to liking the Yankees after that year. I have since brought him back from the Dark Side. My favorite picture of him is when we went to the parade in Boston and I made him wear a championship T-shirt and hold a poster proclaiming the Sox as world champions. If he had not come back to the light, that would have been in the collage of pictures at his wake - it still will be.