easy rider

I have been riding my bike to work the last couple of weeks. It's been great and I am seeing and experiencing things I would never notice from a car or bus. Among them:

1. A woman smoking a cigarette with a cigarette holder. It must have been a 120 cigarette, too. She was barely inhaling at all. I think she just liked having something to wave about.

2. A man with a shopping cart, out of which he seemed to be living, eyeing a statue of Jesus. He was rearranging his belongings in the cart in what seemed to be an effort to make room for Jesus.

3. Lots of pennies.

4. Odd trash: the sole of a tennis shoe, a pair of Carharts covered in duct tape, various car parts.

5. The driver of a Shell Oil tanker honking and giving me the thumbs-up, apparently in approval of my alternative transportation choice.