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Major Oops!
Tired of the inconvenience of driving from the airport to his country
cottage, a man equipped his small plane with pontoons so he could land on the lake directly in front of his cottage. On his next trip however, he
made his approach down the airport runway as usual.
Alarmed, his wife cried out, "Are you crazy? You can't land this plane here
without wheels!" The startled husband yanked the nose up, narrowly averting certain disaster.
Continuing home, he landed the plane on the lake without mishap. As he sat there, visibly shaken, he said to his wife, "I don't know what on earth got into me. That's the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life!"
And with that, he opened the door and stepped out ... right into the water.
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.
~J.B. Jackson
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.
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