On my ride to work today I passed several school zones. Near one school a mother and son, helmeted, were stopped at the side of the path, straddling their bikes, looking at their phones.
“What does that mean?” Mom asked as I rode past.
“You got rid of it,” the kid answered. He was teaching his mom to play Pokémon Go.
There are so many things I like about that little vignette. Parent and child, doing a healthy, safe, and fun activity, and even letting the kid be the teacher.
A few miles farther along I was passing near the entrance to another school. A woman in a Ford hybrid with a kid in the back ran a stop sign turning left, and almost get T-boned by another mom in a big-ass SUV in a frothing hurry to reach the school entrance.
We should all take a breath and be more like the first mom.
Actually, the real lesson here is we see a lot more of the world when slow down and commute by bike.