I Like to Ride My Bicycle

I've gotten back into bike riding for the first time since college. (I have a foldable bike from Citizen's Bike. Click on the photo to go to their website.) Yesterday, down in Weymouth, I biked to the Braintree post office and back - an 8 mile trek with not so much room for bikes and lots of hills. Still, I managed. Before I set off for the trip, though, I had to go to "Cameron's Gulf" AKA Dick's gas station and get air in my back tire. When I rode up there I felt so silly. I said to Dick, "I can't believe I'm 30 years old and I'm still coming here to get air in my bike tires." He laughed and said, "Are you looking for a lollipop, too?" Because I used to get those from him, too. And then he said, "Hold on a minute..." He disappeared out back while the younger guy got the air pump. When Dick reemerged, he had a chocolate flavored Tootsie Roll pop for me. "Here you go!" The younger mechanic said, "Where did those come from? I didn't know we had those." He seemed forelorn to have missed out on free lollipops during the length of his employment thus far. Then I said, "I feel like I'm back in the Fulton School days," and the mechanic said, "I loved Fulton School!" It was weird but in a funny and cute way.