March 13, 2021:
He gave up the bicycle for contact lenses. Does he want to be mobile or does he want to get laid?
He loved the bicycle. It had been his closest companion, ever since middle school. He took it with him wherever he went, in large part because he needed it to get there.
But he loved it, and he couldn't ride it with hard contacts. Even with shades, the wind was too painful.
So he cast that love aside, like putting away a childish thing. Years later, when he was getting laid, the love of his life locked it to a tree and lost the key. It rusted in the weather. Not unlike the love of his life. Although that did for a time give the ultimately false appearance of lasting longer.