On Sunday, August 14th, I think I saw the Parkdale Amazon on a blue pastel vintage bike. She was wearing a black sundress with neon rainbow trim along the v-neck. She was waiting for the light to change so she could cross Queen Street from Dunn Avenue and I think she noticed my standing and watching her. The light changed but she didn’t cross. Instead she turned and rode the wrong way down Dunn.
I rode to
Danforth and Linnsmore and then north to Mortimer.
On the way
home, I was on Queen Street, approaching Shaw Street in the center lane when a
young guy passed me on the right, but too close to one of the parked cars. His
right handlebar clipped the mirror and knocked it out of its frame onto the
street. I called out, “Jesus, guy!” He kept on driving, but slowed down and
said, “Oh, I feel so bad!” Then he looked at me and said, “Sorry about that!”
as if it were my mirror. “Don’t apologize to me!” I told him. He rode on. If I
knocked a mirror out I’d at least go back to pick it up and put it on top of
the car it belonged to.
I watched
an episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy and Ethel demand equal rights and so
they agree to treat them like men. They were on their way out for dinner and
the men began by not helping the women on with their coats or holding the door
for them. At the restaurant they don’t pull out their chairs for them. In the
end they pay for their own meals and leave Lucy and Ethel to pay for theirs.
Since the girls don’t have money they have to wash dishes to pay for their
meals.
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