Choose your own adventure

Journal Entry # 7--part one

Published on July 29, 2004 By alison watkins In Philosophy

In philosophy class, my teacher shared a very interesting story.

His son is just learning how to ride a bike where the breaks are located on the handle bars, instead of pushing back on the pedals. Because he is not comfortable using the hand breaks, he keeps stopping by putting his foot down on the ground, and has been rather successful at doing so. One day he decided to go down the driveway and pedaled at speeds faster than he's ever been before. He stood up and began to put his foot down.

What do you think happened next?

Comments

Lengirl

on Jul 29, 2004

surely if he's 'stood up' then both his feet are already on the ground? So I would hesitate a guess and say that his bike continued on it's journey while he was left standing.

Or, the bike stopped also, (assuming the boy held onto the handlebars. Or

They both landed in a heap on the ground. But what were the speeds he had never before attempted? had he ever attempted snail speed, or are we talking formula 1??

So many questions...not enough time....hehe

Have you heard the one about the jar and the stones??

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