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It started so innocently.....

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:36 pm
by BuzZz
Spent the day working in the shop today..... with the radio playing....

The local station gives away a grand every month and once a day, when you hear the right sound effect, you call in and caller #6 gets entered in that month's draw. And that's what I did. I was #6.

They always ask the person what they would spend the cash on. They asked me....
"Oh I'll just throw it at my bike. You'll never even see where it sticks..."

DJ "So your gonna buy some chrome for your Harley, huh?"

You can see how he provoked me. I can't really be held responsible, can I? :lol:

I said, "No, not exactly."

DJ, "What do you mean? Why not?"

"Cause Harley's suck. And chrome sucks worse than Harleys."

DJ, "So you don't ride a Harley?"

"You catch on quick."

DJ, " Well ok, thank you and your now entered...bla, bla, bla...."

2 minutes later there's another caller on the radio, foaming at the mouth about how he's gonna kill me for not loving Harleys. And another after that. And another. And more. And they were getting more threatening.

About 6-7 into this, I called back and told Mr. DJ who I was. I told him he should be asking all these 'experts' if they rode. And then what they rode.

And he did start asking the callers if they rode. The first 5 guys and one girl said ..... uh, well, no..... then they caught on to that and everyone suddenly had 3 H-Ds in the garage. This went on for about 2 hours. When it started to taper off, I called back to stoke the flame a bit.

"The thing a Harley is good for is to keep some fat bastid from scraping his azz on the pavement as he travels down the road."

Now the calls were all about how dead I was gonna be when all these Mensa members got ahold of me. You could hear the spit hitting the phone receivers as these dudes barked out their death threats. It was entertaining as hell. :twisted:

I called in the first time about 10 am. By 4 pm they were still getting calls and I called in once more.

"A couple dozen of these goofballs probably could beat me into a thick paste if they got the chance..... but if they are all riding Harleys, I ain't worried. There is no way in hell they could ever catch me." :mrgreen:

I left work at 8 pm and they were only letting the callers who could form coherent words through by then..... most of the calls were growls and screams by that piont......

All in all, a very interesting way to spend a day trapped in the shop. :laughing:

Now don't everyone get bent all outta shape and take this a Harley bashfest. I got nothing against them at all. I DO get a bit pissedoff when someone assumes that if I have a bike, it is automatically a H-D. As happens 9 times out of 10 around here. Even after I tell them it's not a Harley, most people tend to ignore/forget that and keep making oh-so-witty remarks about me and my Harley. And I just let them, most of the time.

This time I didn't. 8)

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:37 pm
by Sev
Hahaha, that's great.

To bad you didn't have a tape recorder.

Re: It started so innocently.....

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:24 am
by Gummiente
BuzZz wrote:Now don't everyone get bent all outta shape and take this a Harley bashfest. I got nothing against them at all.
Yeah, sure you don't. :roll:

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:36 am
by High_Side
Were you listening to the Zed perhaps? :laughing: I would have loved to hear that all play out...... I would have known that you were playin', but it's amazing how many people take themselves so seriously.....

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:54 am
by Wizzard
High_Side wrote:it's amazing how many people take themselves so seriously.....
Yep , and life shouldn't be taken seriously cause it passes far too quickly .
Now for the best and later for the garbage .
Good going BuzZz ! I get that all of the time . I love it when most ignorant peeps take Miz Thang for a HD . And when I tell them it is a Suzuki they just scratch their heads and have to admit that it looks nice for a rice burner .
Course these are the same folks that are terrified to ride anything on two wheels . And the real bikers just go ; "Kewl."
Regards, Wizzard

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:40 am
by Gadjet
Alright Dean!

Interestingly enough, I get the same thing happening when I tell people that I ride - they quickly lose interest when I tell them that 'No, I don't ride a Harley. I ride a Kawasaki KLR650'

Most of the time, this elicits the usual 'deer in the headlights' blank look, and I have to explain what a KLR is. The few times that someone actually knows what it is generally leads to nice conversations about riding and bikes.

The best reaction I have ever gotten though, I got a couple weeks ago; I went to the local country bar to meet up with a friend and meet her sister. when the sister found out that I rode, she casually remarked/asked 'Harley?'
When I said 'No, Kawasaki KLR650. A dual sport bike' her eyes just lit right up and she got excited, telling me that I had to take her for a ride sometime.

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:07 am
by paul246
Buzz, that was hilarious! I thought we had a lot of rednecked posers around these parts, but that takes the cake. :laughing:

Re: It started so innocently.....

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:10 am
by BuzZz
Gummiente wrote:
BuzZz wrote:Now don't everyone get bent all outta shape and take this a Harley bashfest. I got nothing against them at all.
Yeah, sure you don't. :roll:
That's right, I DON'T. But I will play with the more rabid devotees when the opportunity presents its self. You know, the guys who are so into them you'd think they actually designed and built them at the factory...

You could tell when a real rider called in. He sounded like a rational human being for one thing, not a raving religious fanatic with a bomb strapped to his ribs. And they had a real answer to the 'what do you ride' question. A 94 FLHR Electra Glide Road King for instance...... not a 'softtail' or a 'hardcore rigid'.... but let's be honest, rational riders ain't as interesting to a radio station as a loud mouth idiot's rantings are, so it's the latter that got put through most often.

Meantime, I'll take a Harley. Please. Anybody? You want to give me a Harley, I will gladly accept it and ride it. I would like most any year of XB-12 please. Long or short, any weird color you have left over on the floor, it's all good.
Or a Ulysses......

The real riders get this. The guys who were calling would not consider those bikes Harley Davidsons. And I will screw with those guys all day whenever I can. :mrgreen:

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:45 pm
by ZooTech
Had a guy at work admiring my bike one day. He approached me later on and said, "That's a really nice bike you've got there...the only thing that would make it better is if it were a Harley!" That's easy...just reduce the horsepower by half and double the price.

A few weeks later I went to sign the papers for my '05 Colorado and a couple salesmen came out to admire my bike. After a couple minutes one of them said to me, "Man, that looks just like a Harley doesn't it?" to which I replied, "Man, I sure as hell hope not!" Being a kiss-butt salesman, he more than likely thought he was giving me a huge compliment. Thing is, Harley doesn't have a single bike in their stable that catches my eye...and I certainly don't want my bike to look like a cookie-cutter replica. :roll:


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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:57 pm
by oldnslo
Great story, Buzz--whenever I tell anybody I ride, they ALWAYS assume it is a Harley. At my age, what else could it be, right? Nice job of stirring the pot. I love it when Harleyists foam at the mouth over any perceived insult. :)