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Are you nekkid?
Nude men running on the Barton Creek Greenbelt!
Or at least that’s what I thought I saw. It was on Monday, the first time I had mountain biked as far as the Twin Falls access point, and I was on the home stretch of my return to Zilker.
(Rule No. 1 about Dave biking the Greenbelt: The Greenbelt hates me and I must pay with my blood. There’s a stretch just before the first crossing that’s particularly rocky and the only time I’ve crossed it without a scratch — or more — was the time I got a flat.)
My sunglasses were streaked with sweat and it was shady, so I didn’t get the definitive look (and I’m thankful), but I thought I saw a man who was running absolutely nekkid. If he wasn’t in the buff, he was wearing a thong that would make Leslie blush. Oh yeah, he was wearing running shoes.
The thing I love about Austin is that if you’re paying attention at least once a day you’re going to see at least one person doing at least one thing that don’t make a lick of sense. I chalked up to keeping Austin weird and kept on.
But not far down the trail, I saw what seemed to be an older man talking his grandson for a nature walk. And it occurred to me that this jogger must have passed them. And it occurred to me that this kid (maybe 6 years old?) got a bit more nature than he bargained for.
And sure enough, as I cycled through, that young one had a wide-eyed expression, like everything mom had told him about strangers had turned out to be horribly and irrevocably true.
I’ll bet there was an interesting discussion at the dinner table later that night.
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