The race is on
February 23, 2010emily No Comments »Do you ever find yourself in an unintentional foot race with a stranger? You’re walking along the sidewalk, and suddenly the person to your right picks up her pace. She wasn’t walking that fast to begin with… was she? Perhaps you’ve slowed your pace inadvertently, so you speed up a bit. But somehow you’re still not catching up with her. You increase speed again. Your shins start to burn a little. At the moment at which you start to break a sweat, you realize how ridiculous the situation is. You shake your head at the sheer ludicrousness of the situation: race-walking a stranger. How silly! And then, just as you’ve given up (she’s got much longer legs than you, in any case), you see her smirk to herself. What the…? Was she…? No, surely not. But, just in case, you pick up your pace again.
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