Rode for 30 miles this morning. I took a right on Bend of the River
from Old Bailey. I got about three miles down the rd, about a mile
from the I-95 overpass, and I decided that I needed to adjust my
seat. I stopped at the edge of a driveway, as I have done many a time
when my bike needed a little adjustment. I saw some dogs penned up,
and they were barking at me. As i pulled the allen wrench from my
saddle pouch, a country fella came down the driveway in his sweatpants
and t-shirt. I assumed he wanted to check and make sure I was ok.
Country folks are usually so nice. NOT THIS ONE. The conversation
went as follows,
He said, "What the hell do you think yer doin? If my dogs wern't
pinned up, you woulda uttracted 'em, and they'd a cum runnin after
you. I lived here seven damn yers, and I ain't had no problems. But
now you f...@in people keep cumin by on yer bikes. Damn, you dun
stopped right here on my driveway. A couple weeks ago, five ur six of
ye cam by here. They wur all dressed up like you, in yer damn get
up. Sh*t, I ain't seen nuthin like it."
I muttered, "I saw that your dogs were pinned up. I needed to check
something on my bike. I'm sorry if I caused a problem."
He ranted, "Hell yea you caused a problum. My damn dogs are barkin.
If they hadn't been put up, they'd a cum runnin up to you, and you'd a
called the pulice, and I'd be the one in trouble. What's yur name?"
I replied, perhaps unfairly, "My name is Joshua Goocey, I'm the
minister at First Christian Church on Tarboro St."
He didn't let any more cuss words fly after that. He kinda took a
step back, and muttered, "Well, I'm sorry about that, but you dang
people can't come ridin by here."
I apologized one more time, and told him I would get off his property.
I spent the rest of the ride thinking about all the things I could
have said.
Goose
Rev. Joshua M.K. Goocey
Senior Minister
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
207 Tarboro St. N.
Wilson, NC 27896
[email protected]
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those
because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a
habit. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
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