I know you guys love my controversial opinions here is another one
If you refuse to wear a helmet while riding a bike or a horse you are stupid.
You see people get concussions and traumatic brain injuries all the time on TV and they just magically heal and start going back to normal.
The truth is
If you get a moderate to severe TBI you will NEVER go back to normal. You will never be back to yourself before your brain injury. You will experience a lifetime of consequences that your friends and family will have to watch you suffer through because you thought it wasn't cute to wear a helmet.
I know with barrel racing and rodeos there is this culture where if you wear a helmet your a pussy or a coward. Do some crusty ass people's opinions matter more then your grey matter? Does progressive brain atrophy sound like a fun time? It's not. I have known multiple people close to me who have suffered TBIs and they are never the person they were before their TBI.
I lived by an apple farm and my grandma always told me to never ride my bike through it at 4 a.m. because if I did, it would spit me out into a new reality. One day I decided I would, and when I did, I woke up.
We’re getting closer to autumn and when I bike to work I see more and more seemingly abandoned bikes parked on the side of the road, but then I notice a man and a child who’s still wearing their school bag working together to pick apples, or a man still wearing his high visibility work clothes who’s putting raspberries in a wrinkled plastic bag, or an old woman who’s gingerly collecting mushrooms and putting them straight into the basket on her bike because she brought nothing else.
All of these people clearly didn’t plan to go foraging but just happened to spot something on their commute, and it made me wonder what people do in countries that doesn’t have much of a bike culture. Like, I get why Norwegians don’t bike as much as Danes. Taking a stroll in most towns is plenty of work with those mountains (seriously, if you ever wanted proof that fat doesn’t mean out of shape, watch fat Norwegians walk up and down those inner-city mountainsides like it’s nothing)
So my question is just, if you like to forage but don’t bike which means you can’t just stop when you spot something yummy in the bushes, what do you do exactly? Do you make a trip of it and drive to a forest? Because here that’s considered hardcore foraging for nature nerds here, even though most people do casual foraging. Or is foraging mostly done when you go for a walk and randomly spot a berry bush? Because a lot of my casual foraging is done when I walk my dogs.