SilverBuffalo
Nov 23rd, 2005, 5:57 pm
While on vacation in west Texas a couple of weeks ago I got myself into a humorous situation.
After traveling for a couple of weeks my wife and I ran out of clean clothes, the motel we stayed at didn't have laundry facilities so of we went to the local laundrymat in Alpine Texas.
I washed everything I had with me and struck up a conversation with the owner of the laundrymat, a Harley rider who was there fixing a washing machine. Since there weren't any restrooms I asked if he had a place where I could change into my shorts so I could also wash the pants I had been wearing for 3 days, he obliged by opening up his store room briefly.
When he got done fixing his machine he locked up and left....me standing there in my boots and shorts, it didn't dawn on me until I pulled everything out of the dryer and folded it, that I didn't have anywhere to put my pants back on. This might not be a big deal to some folks but I have never ridden a motorcycle in a pair of shorts, except that day, about 55 degrees out and I had to ride about 6 blocks to a gas station and then casually walk in and use the restroom, if I didn't look like a silly tourist.
After traveling for a couple of weeks my wife and I ran out of clean clothes, the motel we stayed at didn't have laundry facilities so of we went to the local laundrymat in Alpine Texas.
I washed everything I had with me and struck up a conversation with the owner of the laundrymat, a Harley rider who was there fixing a washing machine. Since there weren't any restrooms I asked if he had a place where I could change into my shorts so I could also wash the pants I had been wearing for 3 days, he obliged by opening up his store room briefly.
When he got done fixing his machine he locked up and left....me standing there in my boots and shorts, it didn't dawn on me until I pulled everything out of the dryer and folded it, that I didn't have anywhere to put my pants back on. This might not be a big deal to some folks but I have never ridden a motorcycle in a pair of shorts, except that day, about 55 degrees out and I had to ride about 6 blocks to a gas station and then casually walk in and use the restroom, if I didn't look like a silly tourist.