That's funny!
I like when I'll be riding in my buddy's SUV and he'll yell to bike riders "get a car
a**hole", and then get all stressed out that he had to share the road with a bike
rider.
Five minutes later we'll be sitting in a traffic jam and he'll be all stressed out
cursing all of the cars on the road - "stupid traffic!!". Then of course the cyclist
he told to get a car will come zipping past like what seems to be a bullet train.
"stupid bikes!!".
And then he'll bitch about not getting enough exercize. Some people are just confused
I guess :)
Adam.
>OKAy - I'm vented.
>
>Just got into work - I ride my bike. I ride a little over six miles
>in to the Back Bay area of Boston (busy, city streets).
>
>I'm riding down Com Ave (Commonwealth Avenue for the non Bostonians)
>which is a large avenue split by a wide park (basically two one-way
>streets. I'm going to turn left at the next block (another one-way
>street). I'm always with traffic and I ALWAYS obey every traffic
>ordinance on my bike (red lights, use my hand signals, etc) - so much
>so that I tend to drive other cyclists crazy.
>
>So, anyway: I'm riding slowly along nearing the next intersection
>(it's a red light) when a guy (a seemingly upper-middle class guy in a
>newish SUV) pulls extremely to the left cutting me off. He then yells
>out the window "Get to right! Idiots like you give bikes a bad name!".
>
>
>I responded (at first pretty calmly, he was worried about the "name of
>bikes" after all): "Actually on a one-way street it's legal for me to
>be on the left if I'm making a left-hand turn"
>
>(It is legal in MA for a bike to ride on the left or the right on a
>one-way street, whichever is safer. It's the same law that covers
>legal "lefts on red" when going from one one-way street to another.
>Actually it's perfectly legal for me to take up a whole lane of
>traffic... but I try to be accomodating and not slow anybody down.)
>
>He responds: "Get to the right you fat f*ck!" (note, please, that he
>didn't use the asterisk).
>
>I'm not that proud, I respond: "Shit-head."
>
>He replies (Ironically): "So now you're name calling!"
>
>I replied (childishly): "I think you started it by calling me fat."
>
>He retorts: "No I called you a fat f*ck!"
>
>I answer: "If you'd like you get out you can see a fat f*ck put his
>foot in your ass!"
>
>He answers: "Sure, let's do that you pile of crap!"
>
>I get off my bike and stand up (I AM a big fat bastard mind you, but
>I'm an IMPOSING big fat bastard... there are 300lb guys and then there
>are 300lb guys that can still ride a bike 12 miles a day).
>
>Apparently he reconsiders because he speeds away yelling "Get an
>athletic support you fat f*ck!" (I'm still puzzeling over that one...
>it's not like the boys had come out to play or anything.)
>
>So basically my day is effectively stained. Actually it was nice in a
>sense: right after this two guys in a beat-up van puuled up next to me
>and said "Forget him... if he had gotten out he would have had all
>three of us to deal with". I thanked them for their show of support
>(support from a stranger - or two - definately takes the edge off in
>these scenarios).
>
>Jim Davis
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