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I'm not 'sue crazy', but in today's world it's usually the only recourse you have. I recently read Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton. It's amazing that a couple hundred years ago, men would resolve their differences with dueling pistols. Unfortunately, the person in the right didn't always come out on top. Come to think of it, nothing much has changed, now the guy with the better, more ruthless lawyer probably wins. Lawyers instead of pistols. Kassie and I can't complain though, things turned out all right for us.
But not perfect. The hospital in Wisconsin didn't fix my hand properly and I had to go back into surgery to use my right index finger. For two months I couldn't ride a motorcycle because of the cast and therapy. Maybe it was a sign. By now, Kassie and I were recommitted to each other and talking about buying a house and getting pregnant.
At the end of my rehabilitation, I got on the Road King and headed northeast up to the North Cascade Highway. I spent the day, by myself, and made the decision. Without telling Kassie, I put the bike up for sale and had it sold within a week.
It took her a few days, but one day Kassie came home from her new job at the local gym and asked me. "Bud, where's your bike?"
I was at the stove, stirring a pot of spaghetti sauce, my grandmother's recipe, Kassie loves it. "I sold it." With a 'oh well, no big deal' tone.
"Why would you do that?"
"Why do you think?"
"I hope you didn't do it because of me!"
I almost laughed at the absurdity of her statement. She kept on.
"Bud, I was trying. I stopped asking you to quit riding. You didn't have to sell it."
"That's what made it possible. It wasn't you forcing me. It was my decision, mine alone."
Kassie jumped in my arms and squeezed me tight.
"How did you know?"
Now I was confused. "Know what?"
"How did you know I'm pregnant? I only found out today."
A chill went up my back. I hugged Kassie and told her how happy I was. "This weekend, we start looking for a house with a yard."
I don't remember ever getting a kiss like that before.
******
Look how wrong you can be - I wrote earlier that as a scientist, I didn't believe in magic. Twenty weeks later, I'm holding a photo of Kassie's ultrasound which changed my mind.
Twins!
The End
*Other great motorcycle books include:
Neil Pert's 'Ghost Rider -Travels On The Healing Road' - Pert travels 55,000 miles in search of a reason to live after a personal tragedy.
"She's A Bad Motorcycle - Writers On Riding" - a collection of short stories edited by Geno Zanetti
And Bill always recommends and has gifted numerous copies of David Hough's 'Proficient Motorcycling' to friends who ride. He contributes his decades of accident-free riding to Mr. Hough's excellent book.
- COMMENTS
Anonymousabout 2 months agoHey Folks, I do not like to pick nits BUT, Neil's last name is spelled PEART and his book is absolutely fantastic.
Anonymousabout 2 months agoIt would be nice. If you could rate the story and separately the comments. Four stars for the story. Two stars for the comments.
Anonymous2 months agoI liked the story but thought Bud was a jerk. Either his way pr the highway and then being such a duch about Kassie almost cheating, the key word is almost. Why not when Bud chose the cycle over their marriage.
Simon_Masters5 months agoMy wife and I loved the bikes, we stopped going pillion when she fell pregnant. We had some brilliant times, probably the best times really. I still have bikes, but my health precludes riding now.
Anonymous5 months agoHonestly, I felt like Bud was kind of a douche. He really was going to pick his motorcycle over his wife after he watched two of his friends (and their unborn child) die in an all too common motorcycle accident? I rode for 15 years and I quit when I got married. It's not a hobby for a man who wants to start a family.
Anonymous6 months agoMC could not have loved his wife as much as she loved him. She did not want her husband to ride his motorcycle because she feared for his life and could not accept the possibility of losing him...she loved him so much. However, her husband did not give a shit what she thought and did not care about her deep foreboding. He had no consideration of her feelings...her tears made no difference. The a**hole showed that he did not really love her. The writers did a good job with this story showing plenty of warranted emotion on the wife's part. BillandKate are, obviously, very good writers and this story deserves a well deserved 5 stars.
Anonymous6 months ago"No, neither of those things will accomplish anything. DAMN it, Kassie! I still love you; but hearing how you allowed this sleazebag to come between us really fucking pisses me off!"
====> understandable. Think how she feels that you did the same but with a motorcycle...
Anonymous6 months agoGlad they reconciled, but honestly one of the few stories where I can see why she is thinking if cheating. I don't condone it, but can understand it. The MC really was insensitive and stubborn, and look what he almost lost. Besides he was just going to ride off into the sunset. Yes she had an emotional affair and almost had a full physical affair. Husband could have stopped it by bending. He is not an upstanding husband. Could have seen ot go either way. Meaning him leaving and her moving on, letting him ride off, or as I'm this story, them reconciling. If she is here as a "loving" wife, according to the LW vernacular, then the MC is playing the part of a "loving husband", just his emotional "affair" is with his motorcycle.
Anonymous6 months agoFirst time after reading too many to count LW stories I'm 100% on the wife's side.
1-Husbands refusal and blindness to see / understand his wifes trauma over the death of their dear friends.
2-His bull headed choice in choosing A FRIGGIN' BIKE over his wife? and allowing it to rot away what was to that point an idyllic marriage.
3-Cold and callous way he was going to dump his wife and just walk away.
Husband is a complete tool and would of deserved it if his wife had cheated.
Anonymous7 months agoA motorcycle is more important than your wife, esp after trauma of her friends deaths?
