Bike racks

You remember meeting by the bike racks at school, don’t you?

Those bike racks were outside the elementary school every day of the year. You rode to school almost every day of the school year, even in torrential downpours of rain. Your mom and dad didn’t mind letting you go those few blocks when you promised to lock your bike up in those bike racks. Those bike racks were always there and empty, and when you see bike racks now you’re taken back to simpler times.

Those thick metal bike racks cook in the sun, so whenever you come outside to get your bike you pick it up from the line of hot bikes locked up in the bike racks. You almost burn your hands on the bike racks’ metal, but it never quite happens. They’re always standing by for you, securing your bike with all of your buddies’ sport bikes. They’re the sturdiest of bike racks you could get. Thick, solid metal that would never wield to a bike robber’s bolt cutters is their biggest asset.

It almost seems like the bike racks have feelings, like they love having all of those hot bikes and sport bikes locked up in them. They look so sad and empty in the summertime, like the bike racks want the kids back with all of their bikes. Those bike racks will be there for decades for all of the school kids to come.