Biking

I was studying last night at Borders and met a couple of friends there...we ended up talking about biking, cause one of them didn't know how to ride a bike. Incredulous! So quickly me and other friend regalated our tales of biking woes, of how we ran into mailboxes, cars, skidding through gravel and mud, etc, etc...one thematic element that ran through all of these stories? Pain. Lots and lots of pain. Dunno why the more pain the better the story, but somehow I don't think that we convinced her that biking was actually fun.