Riding Again

Hello,

At time to leave the house, 57 seemed like a nice temperature in which to ride the bike, but we had heard raining earlier. Was it raining now? We could not tell by looking out the windows. I zipped downstairs only to discover to my embarrassment that I had not locked the door when I came home last night. I was also thankful that we were fine.

It was not raining. Leroy raced around in a bit of a tizzy because he needed to get ready to bike rather than get in the car. He will be late for work and he tells me, “When I go later there is always more traffic. I don’t like that.”

He is hoping that he will have a window of time at home coming time so he can have a dry ride home. In the event of much rain, I suggested he take the bus as that would work as well. If it is not raining so much he can even put his bike on the front of the bus.

The reason I forgot to lock the door last night was that I was unsettled from work. We can do screen shots and see what our patrons are looking at while using the computer. I checked on some boys earlier and then I checked on a young girl, younger than ten. She was looking at pornography. Immediately I got out of my chair, came over to her computer and told her, “You are done on the computer now. This is not appropriate things to be looking at. You may not use the computer until we tell you that it is again ok.”

I closed down the window, but not before her slightly older brother popped over to see just what was there. Both of them slipped on their coats and were out the door before I even finished closing things down.

I was shocked even though another staff person had related that they had seen her looking at porn on an iPod. Somewhere in my head or heart I did not believe it. It was not the more innocent type of Playboy stuff, but more offensive at least to me. I keep wondering, is there something else I should have said to her? Something about why I do not feel it is the right thing to be doing? Is this young girl already hooked? It was difficult for me to sleep with all of the things rolling around in my head.

And Leroy just worries about riding in the rain.

Paula