[TonyLima]

Another early 80s rain story. The rain forced me to buy my first car. Stanford had very little grad student housing in 1981, and weirdly their policy back then was to give precedence to students who were in campus housing the prior year, not to first years. So I was living in a room in a house in Menlo Park and biking to campus on my trusty old 3-speed, despite the rain.

The last straw that ended that approach was one night when I ran head-on into one of the trees that is in the middle of the bike lane on Bay Road. I had rain on my glasses and car headlights in my eyes and didn't see the tree.  I bent my front fork to where the bike wasn't ridable until I had it repaired.

I bought VW Bug soon after.

That tree got a 15% commission on your auto purchase.

[TonyLima]

Another early 80s rain story. The rain forced me to buy my first car. Stanford had very little grad student housing in 1981, and weirdly their policy back then was to give precedence to students who were in campus housing the prior year, not to first years. So I was living in a room in a house in Menlo Park and biking to campus on my trusty old 3-speed, despite the rain.

The last straw that ended that approach was one night when I ran head-on into one of the trees that is in the middle of the bike lane on Bay Road. I had rain on my glasses and car headlights in my eyes and didn't see the tree.  I bent my front fork to where the bike wasn't ridable until I had it repaired.

I bought VW Bug soon after.

That tree got a 15% commission on your auto purchase.