Brenda Lee
mother
“Ran into the back of a car and hit my ‘personal area.’ What’s worse, I hit the same car in the same spot two weeks later.”
Lewis Height
retired from Shell Oil
“Never had a bike. I grew up during the Depression.”
Mary Height
retiree
“I fell off my granddaughter’s bike and it fell on top of me. It hurt my knee. My granddaughters reply: ‘Is the bike okay?’”
Maria Diaz
bank teller
“My shoelace got stuck in the spokes. I was stuck in the bike for quite a while.”
This article appears in Oct 16-23, 2008.