Caught in a Storm

Earlier today I noticed how full my pockets were while I was biking. I stopped at a bike shop to purchase a pouch that I can put stuff in. The guy who helped me wasn't very knowledgeable, but whatever, I got what I needed and headed to the Hammock State Park to ride the trail.

I started to notice the sky was getting cloudy and dark so I headed back early from the park and stopped at a health store to get some multi-vitamins. While I was in the store it started to really pour. There was lightning and roaring thunder. The lady in the store practically forced me to stay in the store and not try to head home. I waited about 40 minutes in and outside the health store and chatted with the clerk. Finally, the rain let up a little, but there was still periodic lightning. The store clerk still didn't want me to go home. She told me she was going to call her son, who works at a nearby bike shop, to see if he could take me back to the Kenilworth Lodge. Ha, ha. So it turns out the kid who sold me the bike pouch was the son of the health store clerk. That's crazy. He said business was slow today so he came to pick me and my bike up.

We had a nice little chat on the way to the motel. He told me he didn't really like selling things in the store and his specialty was fixing bikes. Basically, he was apologizing for not helping me much with the pouch. I told him I didn't like selling things either so I understood. He also told me his mom is always volunteering him to do stuff, but he doesn't mind. Last time his mom volunteered him to do something it was pumping gas for an elderly lady at a gas station. It was wonderful to run into such a nice family today.