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Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:13 am

I was up at advance auto getting replacement bulbs for the turn signal indicators. Got what I wanted and walked outside.

While I'm leaving a guy walks up to me, his girl in tow, and starts giving me a lecture on how unsafe bikes are and that his friend died while riding a bike and that they're horrible and don't have a right to be on the road.

I told him that I use the bike to get around, saves me money on gas, makes parking in D.C. easier and I agreed that they were dangerous but I was willing to accept that.

BUT HE WENT ON. Finally he told me that I need to do the responsible thing and get a car.

So I looked at him, tears in my eyes and shakingly said "My uncle died in a car accident".

I think he actually believed me but when his girlfriend started laughing his face turned red, and I swear he was going to try to tear into me but his girlfriend dragged him away still laughing.

It was a good day

CNF2002 · #2 Unread post by **CNF2002** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:24 am

Good one! Who goes up to random strangers and insults their mode of transportation?

kabob983 · #3 Unread post by **kabob983** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:22 pm

That's absolutely beautiful!

Props for the quick thinking!

K9 · #4 Unread post by K9 » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:24 pm

I do not know what to say to this story. I wanted to say I read it though and am baffled by it. How to handle people like that is another question. I am wondering how old you are and also how old you think they were. Is this a time to just say" I'm sorry you feel that way" and walk away watching your back? or do you think they were setting you up. You thought the guy was going to get into it with you, could you have taken him? Did you plan that all important first shot in his nose, once the nose is broken you have a few seconds to dig in wile they can't see.

#5 Unread post by **ZooTech** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:12 pm

K9 wrote:do you think they were setting you up. You thought the guy was going to get into it with you, could you have taken him? Did you plan that all important first shot in his nose, once the nose is broken you have a few seconds to dig in wile they can't see.

Fight much do ya?

#6 Unread post by **Sev** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:01 pm

I would have just launched into a tirade on "safe-sex" and promiscuity...

Then ask him who the red head I saw him necking with last firday was...

Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:08 pm

Sevulturus wrote:I would have just launched into a tirade on "safe-sex" and promiscuity...

Then ask him who the red head I saw him necking with last firday was...

So many different ways I could have taken that situation. Like I said I did try the I'm sorry you feel that way but I ride the bike for X Y Z reasons- but that just brought on more of a lecture so I decided be funny.

Could I have taken the guy? Lord knows, maybe he was a martial arts expert who flys around the world mastering every form of fighting imaginable or maybe he was just an opinionated asshat with a glass jaw. I'm not the kind of guy to randomly find out

At the same time, I don't think the guy set out to pick a fight in the middle of the day in front of advance auto parts on a thursday.

K9 · #8 Unread post by K9 » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:35 pm

Now that's funny; who was the redhead. Make his ol lady whoop his butt!!!!!!!

jmillheiser · Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:58 pm

my response would have been much simpler and to the point

"fudge" Off

jstark47 · #10 Unread post by **jstark47** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:23 pm

I agree with millheiser, except I wouldn't have even gone that far. I'm too old now to spend time listening to a-holes. After a couple of sentences, I would have said, "that's nice," turned, and resumed my business. People will say what they want. I don't have to react to 'em.