So, have you ever seen two oldish really fat people fall right over into traffic whilst they were riding a tandem bicycle? I did. Today. On busy South Kihei road, two cars in front of us. I spotted them wobbling along the edge of the road. Man, they couldn't really be quite right in the head. They were really unsteady and the front wheel was twisting back and forth quickly, too quickly. The lady was on the back seat and she had to be at least 400 pounds! She had on a huge sack like dress (I can't imagine the sight every time her leg peddled up) and seriously, you couldn't see the bike seat at all. The man on the front was also very huge, not as big as her but still really huge. And right before our very eyes, they slowly but oh so surely fell over, right on the road. Fortunately, the traffic is very very slow at this spot. It was like watching a slow motion train wreck. Down they went and her upper leg flew up into the air exposing way more than we ever wanted to see....but in a sick way you just can't stop looking. All traffic completely stopped and people went running over to help. And, even with about four or five people, they simply could not get her up. He eventually got up enough to sit and they managed to extricate the bike, but no matter what they and she did, she could not get up. About twenty minutes later a firetruck came and using a sling of some sort they managed to pull her up and got her into a giant size wheelchair that materialized from somewhere. The poor thing was crying and hiding her face and he just sat there staring at his feet. The police got us all moving at this point. So on we went with such mixed feelings of horror, pity and a tiny tiny bit of humour. Just tiny though. But you know Bill....I won't repeat some of the things he was saying.......
That was a very sad story. Very brave of them to think they could manage the bike. and to do what they wanted to do without putting limits on themselves.
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