I've been watching too much Benoit Blanc lately, is the problem

[cosmolinguist]

I did an interview that might become part of a radio piece on e-bikes as pavement obstacles for blind people today.

He'd done some reconnaissance before I showed up and had found the most e-bikes I have ever seen in one place, taking up most of a pedestrianized side road. We came around a corner to this nest of chaos and all I could think of was "If we were in a science fiction movie about aliens invading the Earth, and the aliens were Lime bikes, I feel like this would be their mothership."

He pointed his microphone at me and said "Say that again." Ha! I gotta watch my goofy metaphors better.

So if you ever hear someone on the radio say they found the giant egg all the Lime bikes hatched from...uh, that's me.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Funny how e scooters are now considered a menace but not e bikes.........

[cosmolinguist]

I wouldn't say that e-bikes aren't considered a menace at all! London Centric has done impressive journalism about the way Lime bikes break people's legs, the hazard to blind people has made national news as has their lethality. Delivery bikes are a particular nuisance but I'm aware this is partly due to grim working conditions that often amount to modern slavery.

[otter]

I needed a laugh this morning :)

[cosmolinguist]

Glad I could help :)

[angelofthenorth]

That is brilliant!

[silveradept]

Well done! An apt metaphor and a good quip.