[This report provided by Pun-ishment ride leader Matt Picio, via the Shift list.]
About 40 people showed up last evening for the Pun-ishment ride, expecting games, prizes, and bad puns. They got the last one, and a promise of a ride to a secret mystery destination, but the ride ran
late and the mystery destination was changed to Mississippi Avenue rather than riding way out into north Portland.
At that point, the lack of good puns, prizes, games, and the mystery destination made this officially the Unmet Expectations Ride.
Despite all this, the attendees had a lot of fun on the 9.5 mile route, enjoying food at the carts on 12th & Hawthorne along with the folks on the Remedial Ride, pizza and beer at Laurelwood Pizza, and more drinks at Amnesia – proving one of the truisms of Pedalpalooza: that it really doesn’t matter what the ride is about or where it goes so long as everyone has fun and gets a chance to socialize and meet
new people.
It also helps when you stop the entire ride in front of some guy’s house when he’s walking up to it to go home.
I did manage to subject everyone to a reign of bad puns in kingly fashion. I am not the Duke of wit nor the Count of charm – nor the Earl (I don’t wear bowties) (wait a sec – does that mean I was NOT the
man of the blumenaur?)
If that last paragraph nearly caused you to hurl, then you should be glad you missed the ride, but we had loads of fun!
Thanks for reading.
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2 ride or not 2 ride… there’s no question