one of the joys of cycling...

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:53:47 GMT, Jeff Starr wrote:

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:19:05 -0800, "Claire Petersky"
wrote:

"greggery peccary" .@. wrote in message
...
I'm sorry that you lost your nice REI gloves (i found them on the street)
but they are very nice and have found a good home, thanks!

I found an old PI Zephyr jacket on the way to work the other day. I was
pleased to see the owner had reported losing it on our local commuter board,
and I was able to get it back to him.

You're a good person Claire.


Life is Good!
Jeff

Pffft. She's a Saint; no joke.

jj

$20 by the "Welcome to California" sign on highway 1 by the Oregon
border.

Maggie Lbuset writes:

How can a person lose tableware on the road? The most I ever find
if I am riding or walking is a shoe. I can never figure out how
someone loses one shoe. What were they doing when they lost that
shoe? Isn't losing a shoe, something you would notice in time to go
back and get it? Did it come off the foot of someone or was he/she
carrying the shoe. Did anyone ever lose one shoe? This has always
been a mystery to me. How does one lose one of their shoes on the
road? HOW? I need to know.

Try a bit harder to imagine how this occurs. I find wallets,
notebooks, shoes, many gas caps, and loads of tools on the road.
Shoes don't go from someone's foot to the street in that sequence.
They, as most of these lost items were left on top of the car when the
driver got in or under the hood for tools as the car got underway.

Maybe you don't recall putting your wallet on the roof of the car when
you had to many things in hand to open the door, but after it's gone,
you should remember. Unfortunately such things need be returned
anonymously or by mail with out return address or the owner will be
rude and essentially accuse you of stealing. That has been my
experience in every instance.

Jobst Brandt

"Maggie" wrote in message
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wrote:
Brian Sanderson wrote:

I too, have enjoyed "gifts from the road gods"...

For me it's usually sockets, i.e., for wrenches. Probably
driveway
mechanics leave them lying about while they tinker, then close the
hood
and forget them.

Oh, and tableware. In the last couple of years, I have found a
steak
knife, a table knife, a spoon, and so help me, two Forks in the Road.

Bill

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How can a person lose tableware on the road? The most I ever find if I
am riding or walking is a shoe. I can never figure out how someone
loses one shoe. What were they doing when they lost that shoe? Isn't
losing a shoe, something you would notice in time to go back and get
it? Did it come off the foot of someone or was he/she carrying the
shoe. Did anyone ever lose one shoe? This has always been a mystery
to me. How does one lose one of their shoes on the road? HOW? I need
to know.
All Good Things,
Maggie


....or if it is a pair, it's always with the laces tied together and slung
over a power line.

wrote in message
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$20 by the "Welcome to California" sign on highway 1 by the Oregon
border.


sweet!

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:29:16 GMT, wrote:
Try a bit harder to imagine how this occurs. I find wallets,
notebooks, shoes, many gas caps, and loads of tools on the road.
Shoes don't go from someone's foot to the street in that sequence.
They, as most of these lost items were left on top of the car when the
driver got in or under the hood for tools as the car got underway.

Let's not forget pickup truck beds. One would expect that is a major
source of lost items. An odd breeze could easily lift a shoe out....

-alan


--
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"I don't want the world, I just want your half." -TMBG
Get Horizontal, Play Ultimate.

:
: Let's not forget pickup truck beds. One would expect that is a major
: source of lost items. An odd breeze could easily lift a shoe out....
:
: -alan

I have known idiots here in Texas who, when they want to throw something
away, toss it into the bed of their pickup trucks. They go to McDonalds,
eat the hamburgers and fries, and then toss the bag and cup into the back of
the truck. About a mile down the road, everything blows out and they
pretend innocence that they have trashed the countryside. "I didn't do
it---I put it in the back of the truck. You can't blame me if it blows out!"

Pat in TX

I recently received an email from someone who apparently didn't find me so
saintly. A post I had made to a local commuter board expressing frustration
regarding traffic at a particular intersection caused someone to let me know
that she thought that I was a hypocrite for advocating meditation in my sig
and at the same time being angry about cars and being inconsiderate by
blocking traffic and taking the lane.

Well, she should see what an angry, nasty bitch I'd be if I didn't have
meditation as a resource. I'd be even more of an emotional basketcase,
probably on drugs or psychotherapy or both. The zendo is not a hall of
saints, but an asylum from lunacy.

I don't get what causes people to post or email purposely hurtful things.
Why write disparging remarks about other people, especially without
provocation? If someone bugs you, a quiet killfiling would seem to suffice.
Why be mean?


Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Home of the meditative cyclist:
http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:19:19 -0800, Claire Petersky wrote:

I don't get what causes people to post or email purposely hurtful things.
Why write disparging remarks about other people, especially without
provocation? If someone bugs you, a quiet killfiling would seem to suffice.
Why be mean?

Answer: misery wants company. If they can't be happy why should you!

As long as I'm not in a lifew threatening situation I mostly ignore
them. Can't teach an ignorant person that they're ignorant.

--
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Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:19:19 -0800, ,
"Claire Petersky" wrote, in part:

The zendo is not a hall of
saints, but an asylum from lunacy.

I don't get what causes people to post or email purposely hurtful things.
Why write disparging remarks about other people, especially without
provocation? If someone bugs you, a quiet killfiling would seem to suffice.

Some flaming can be like the jikido using their kyosaku.

Quietly killfilng just leaves them in dark whereas a public flaying
can be quite instructional. I don't abide pile-ons well.

I won't take crap from cagers either on the road or online.
Mail bomb the creep!
--
zk