Team Rio Grande

You know about THAT guy. The one who sort of invites himself everywhere. THAT guy on our team is Dan Porter.

I don’t think he’s even on the team, but he just keeps showing up to meetings and rides and no one has the heart to tell him to leave. Whenever we have team rides, we don’t even tell Dan. And if Dan calls Allen and is like, “Hey, what are you guys doing Friday? I heard you were getting together,” Allen is all like, “Yeah…I was going to call you, but I’ve been busy. Yeah, you should come to the ride,” then he gives Dan the wrong address.

Dan doesn’t take hints too well either - I mean, if no one talked to me throughout the course of a four hour ride, I would think something was up. And, if you get a flat and everyone else starts sprinting away while you’re on the side of the road fumbling with your CO2 cartridge, that might also be a sign.

This looking down my nose on Dan is a fairly new thing for me. In the past, I simply acted as if Dan didn’t exist, and that guy tagging along with us was just a superfan. But since that last post of his, everything has changed. Maybe Corey Carlson will put down his sandwich and tell him what the rest of us already know - Dan, you are THAT guy.