Bike rack

Remember the bike rack outside your school?

The bike rack outside your elementary school was there day in and day out. You rode your bike to your school nearly every day, even when it was raining. You only lived a few blocks from the school, so your mom and dad didn’t mind letting you ride your bike as long as you promised to lock it up in the bike rack. That bike rack was always there, and even now when you see a bike rack you’re transported to those simpler days.

That cool metal of the bike rack heated up quickly in the sun, so when you came out to get your bike from the line of hot bikes in the bike rack you almost burned your hand when you touched it. But the bike rack would never burn you. It was always there for you, keeping your bike safe along with all of your friends’ sport bikes. It was as sturdy as a bike rack could be – solid tubular metal that would never give over to a bike thief’s bolt cutters.

It seemed like the bike rack was almost alive, like it loved having those lines of hot bikes and sport bikes chained to it. It always looked so empty in the summer when everyone was at home, but that bike rack also almost seemed to be grinning. It wanted its friends back. The bike rack just wanted those hot bikes lined up at it again, because that meant it had company.