Aren't Quiet bikes nice ....

[Stig / Major Tom]

I will also put in my vote for the quiet rides...and quiet anything. I taught Band/Jazz Band/Marching Band/Orchestra, etc., for 32 years, most of that at the Middle School level. Each and every day was a new adventure in noise, let me tell ya. I now appreciate the sounds of quietness and calmness. (And I'd enjoy it more if I hadn't lost so much of my hearing to that constant bombardment over the years.  )

32 years of middle school band concerts!
Oh my goodness.
I've only been to a few doz. school concerts with my 6 kids over 4 decades.
Strangely, I was often moved to tears by what I was witnessing.

The band leader's back & shoulders were often flexing during the concerts.
Was he crying, too? And for the same reason?

Stig

[GLV55]

32 years of middle school band concerts!
Oh my goodness.
I've only been to a few doz. school concerts with my 6 kids over 4 decades.
Strangely, I was often moved to tears by what I was witnessing.

The band leader's back & shoulders were often flexing during the concerts.
Was he crying, too? And for the same reason?

Stig

Well, I suspect the director was practicing for the after-concert flex movement (also known as the raising-shot-glass-to-lips-repeatedly maneuver)