I never thought I'd say this, but at some point in my old age I think I'll be a crotchety old man about some things. For example, it's easy to make fun of the grandpa that tells everyone a million times with vigor and anger about how he used to walk to school in the snow, uphill, both ways. But I now empathize with that ubiquitously known diatribe.

It occurred to me the other day that I too must go uphill to and from school on my bicycle. Yes it is possible, and with all the free time I have in my office to waste on extremely pointless (or do I mean poignant) rants. To strengthen this seemingly arbitrary rant, I made a corresponding arbitrary graph (please refer to fig. 1).

Of course rants are utterly useless with fudged and groundless statistics alone, therefore I have made a list of things I bitch about when riding my bicycle to and from work:

1) Why does the second biggest intersection in Seogwipo not have a streetlight or stop sign for ANY of the 5 roads that converge?
2) I have some grief with the lack of smog checking in Korea.
3) I will NOT ride on the sidewalk with all the pedestrians. It is a known fact that wheels belong on the road, feet on the sidewalk, and skateboards in jail cells.
4) When there is that bike lane on the "highway" sections, could you people refrain from parking your cars there? I hate getting clipped on a 30 mph downhill by a dump truck because your lazy ass couldn't park 50 feet further down the road at the parking lot.
5) Learn to drive. I learned. You can learn too.