Long Live Three-Day Weekends!!

This weekend was the best - time with friends and family, sleeping in, grubbin' down on way too much food, sleeping in, shopping...what could be better?
Yesterday, we hung out with our buds, Jay and Kimberly, and their son Owen. Went to the beach and played in the water, tossed the football, made sandcastles, and read trashy gossip mags. Perfect. Beautiful weather, good ocean breeze. It was a really nice day at the beach.
And then we decided that it would be a good idea to rent one of the four-person bikes to ride up and down the seawall. We hopped on, feeling much like the Flintstones must have felt in their cars. We were laughing, and trying not to run over people, and doin' our thing when the bike literally just stopped. Thousands of people at the beach, hundreds of people on this same type of bike, and we pick the one damn bike that has a front right tire that chooses not to turn. Not to turn forwards anyway.
So we're a good 1/2 mile away from the rental shop, when Kevin realizes that it is possible to make the wheel turn in reverse. Our options were pretty limited at that point, so our resourceful selves turned the bike around and walked on each side of it, trying to blindly steer while it was facing backwards the entire way. People laughed, they pointed, they sneered. One little Australian man on an electric scooter actually circled us and told us that next summer we ought to think about renting a "scootah" instead. Aussie bastard! LOL.
It was a bit humiliating yesterday. Leave it to the four of us to pick the one lemon bike in the bunch. Today, it's ever-so-funny. I so would have been one of the people pointing and laughing. No doubt about it.