Thank you all for your varied and well stated thoughts. I've never gotten into a fight in my life, including grade school. I've always been good a diffusing a bad situation. (My father was an alcoholic and a bully, so it was a skill I learned early on.) But for some reason, these three incidents in the past week or so really struck me as being somehow different than any of the other times in my cycling life (been riding since I was 4...so 62 years!). They projected a sense of embolden-ment that was really powerful. Like they were somehow deputized to "clean up Dodge City" or something. I couldn't help but feel there was a real conflict just waiting to happen.
On this evening's ride, I flatted a few blocks from home. As I was walking my bike back, since it was late, a guy in a pickup who fit the demographic of my 3 most recent "friends" passed me, then pulled over, and when I came up to him, offered me a ride. So, as several of you have pointed out, more times than not, the good outweighs the bad. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
