Took the Rawland up to Lexington Center on the Minuteman before dinner. Nice day for it, cooler air under a milky sky. Not so many people on the Minuteman, but a certain behavioral sloppiness was the order of the day, three-abreast walkers and centerline heroes who seemed to have never acquired or to have recently forgotten their passing skills. I also noticed a fair number of free-range kids on bikes who were better behaved than many of the alleged grown-ups. In other words, it was the Minuteman. A young woman on a skateboard carrying a particularly silly and tendentious sign to the evening's demonstration in Arlington Center convinced me not to take Mass. Ave. for the return. I could hear the noise of the demonstration when I passed a block North of the Mass & Mystic intersection. On balance, a quick and quiet ride, with only a handful of vexations, not a bad score for a vexatious time.
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