Anne Breaks With Her Bikers Stereotype After Watching These Bikers Help Bullied Kids
/My first encounter w/bikers was not a good one. I was 16 and a new driver. About 7 of them pursued me on a highway, following me down the exit to a red light. Revving their engines, all that testosterone went into high gear when the light turned green. Panicked, I moved, too, into the bumper of the car in front of me. Afraid my father would kill me, I begged the driver to let me pay for the new bumper (he probably had insurance, but I was not being very rational.) So I paid him all my drug store earnings college money for months -- several hundred $$$ -- and my parents never knew about the incident. I never had a fondness for bikers after that initial introduction.
So today, I will rewrite my bikers stereotype w/this wonderful story about bikers in Canada, I believe, part of an international network of bikers helping bullied kids. I've checked them out on Google and find no reason not to send them a big humanitarian hug for all their efforts. It's so sad that our kids go through this pain to go to school today, but these guys are making it better. Note that there were 3 teen suicides in this community in 2017, the 3rd one a week before this bikers escort was formed for 10-year-old Xander Rose.