On The Pegs September 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 9 | Page 50

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On The Pegs
Yelling, Sulking, Wallowing
and Acceptance
A COLUMN BY RACHEL GUTISH
RACHEL GUTISH
I
have never understood why people rent bikes for the ISDE, given that the cost is between
one-third to one-half of what a brand-new bike would be. To be honest, the only real
advantage I can see to it is that if the bike blows up midway through the week, you at least
have someone you can go yell at about it.
When my bikes blew up at the ISDE, I never had the privilege of having some-
one to yell at. Either A) I had prepped the bike or B) My dad had prepped the bike.
You see my predicament here. If I yell at myself, at best I would get concerned
stares from alarmed foreigners, while at worst there would be men in white coats
coming to take me away to the nearest nuthouse. I personally have never seen
the inside of an Argentinian asylum and have exactly zero interest in doing so.