Mystery.

You can call it my sixth sense, perhaps possessing a nose for news or maybe I am just channeling my inner Angela Lansbury, but the disposition of a dilapidated bike’s owner mystifies me. Since I’ve resumed walking, my two-mile trek takes me from home to Southfield Road and back. Every day I pass a SMART bus stand and nearby tree to which a two-wheeled bike once was chained. To clarify that last statement, when I first passed this bike some three weeks ago, it was in good condition and chained to the tree. As time has passed, I’ve watched the back wheel, then the front wheel go missing, now just the main cross-bar remains in place – I’m sure that, too, would be gone but for that remaining part which is still chained to the tree. What mystifies me is that it was a multi-speed bike in good condition so obviously the owner left it there to take the bus. Query: Did he never complete the round-trip bus ride? Did he forget he rode his bike to the bus stop that day? Is he lying dead in some alley in the bowels of Detroit? I prefer to think that he went to Motor City Casino, won big time and said to h*ll with the two wheels, I’m upgrading to a car. A niggling bad feeling persists nonetheless.

About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub

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