Naked bicyclists on Spring Garden Road: My eyes, my eyes!

Jaclyn Holland-StraussJune 16, 2012

I’m on Spring Garden right now and I just saw something horrific. There are a bunch of bicyclists who are riding around either naked or in shorts; in any case, none of them have that much on. But one guy was totally naked! He was overweight which was traumatic enough (I’m overweight too but I don’t go around riding a bike naked, whether I’m protesting something or not), but then I noticed that he was completely nude. I don’t think I can ever be happy again. Why couldn’t it have been the guy in front of him? And trust me, it looked worse the further I looked down. It’s like with me. The face is ok, but your eyes travel down, and your heart breaks. I think I’m going to start a protest against unattractive people riding around on their bikes naked.

Jaclyn Holland-Strauss

I love writing stories, newspaper articles and blogs that inspire people of all cultures to control our emotions, to think positively, to reach our full potential, to see both sides of every issue, to not be duped by the global elite/Illuminati, and to progress through life, until we all reach self-actualization.

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