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the penultimate harassment
damn somebody just drove past me on my ride home and sprayed what looked
like tear gas at me! they missed. it hung in a big gasseous cloud on the ground behind me as i rode away. yesterday almost got in a fight with some assholes yelling at me as i minded my own buisness in the bike lane. everyday now it's something WTF? i am starting to seriously question whether most people out there are really "civil" or if they are just like children attacking anything aberrent. i going to start carrying rocks. maybe make a little bag for them on my handlebar. no more mr nice guy... :-( |
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"greggery peccary" @.@ wrote : damn somebody just drove past me on my ride home and sprayed what looked : like tear gas at me! they missed. it hung in a big gasseous cloud on the : ground behind me as i rode away. yesterday almost got in a fight with some : assholes yelling at me as i minded my own buisness in the bike lane. : everyday now it's something WTF? i am starting to seriously question whether : most people out there are really "civil" or if they are just like children : attacking anything aberrent. : i going to start carrying rocks. maybe make a little bag for them on my : handlebar. no more mr nice guy... :-( I have this fantasy of carrying a gun with paint pellets in it and marking the idiots' car or pickup truck as they go by....BTW: where are you riding? What city? Pat in TX : : |
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In article , Pat wrote:
"greggery peccary" @.@ wrote : damn somebody just drove past me on my ride home and sprayed what looked : like tear gas at me! they missed. it hung in a big gasseous cloud on the : ground behind me as i rode away. yesterday almost got in a fight with some : assholes yelling at me as i minded my own buisness in the bike lane. : everyday now it's something WTF? i am starting to seriously question whether : most people out there are really "civil" or if they are just like children : attacking anything aberrent. : i going to start carrying rocks. maybe make a little bag for them on my : handlebar. no more mr nice guy... :-( I have this fantasy of carrying a gun with paint pellets in it and marking the idiots' car or pickup truck as they go by....BTW: where are you riding? What city? Pat in TX A friend a previous cow-order had the same idea many years ago for the highways here in Tx (DFW). With your license you are issued a paint-ball gun. You put paint on anyone's car that is driving erratically, dangerously, etc. The police then look for the people with the most paint! |
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: : I have this fantasy of carrying a gun with paint pellets in it and marking : the idiots' car or pickup truck as they go by....BTW: where are you riding? : What city? : : Pat in TX : : A friend a previous cow-order had the same idea many years : ago for the highways here in Tx (DFW). With your license you : are issued a paint-ball gun. You put paint on anyone's car : that is driving erratically, dangerously, etc. The police then : look for the people with the most paint! I would tag every one of those red light runners fer sure! Pat in TX |
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"greggery peccary" @.@ writes:
damn somebody just drove past me on my ride home and sprayed what looked like tear gas at me! they missed. it hung in a big gasseous cloud on the ground behind me as i rode away. yesterday almost got in a fight with some assholes yelling at me as i minded my own buisness in the bike lane. everyday now it's something WTF? i am starting to seriously question whether most people out there are really "civil" or if they are just like children attacking anything aberrent. i going to start carrying rocks. maybe make a little bag for them on my handlebar. no more mr nice guy... :-( And I question if you meant to use the word "penultimate," and wonder about the potentially ultimate harassment that can result from your proposed use of rocks. -- Brady Montz |
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Rocks are not a good idea. Their 2000+ pound vehicle can do a lot more
retaliatory damage than your 10 ounce stone. - - "May you have the winds at your back, And a really low gear for the hills!" Chris Zacho ~ "Your Friendly Neighborhood Wheelman" Chris'Z Corner http://www.geocities.com/czcorner |
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"May you have the winds at your back, And a really low gear for the hills!" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Especially if you insist on riding with a bag of rocks. |
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In article ,
"greggery peccary" @.@ writes: i going to start carrying rocks. maybe make a little bag for them on my handlebar. no more mr nice guy... :-( "He's five foot two and he's six feet four, He fights with missiles and with spears ..." Don't do it! Too much risk of collateral damage, for one thing. And a bag of rocks just doesn't look good on a bike; that would almost be as bad as shopping bags slung on the handlebar. Such incidents often seem to occur in closely-timed clusters, but they never really indicate any trend. What helps me get over such negative experiences is to make a point of creating positive ones -- eg: chatting a little with fellow riders, complimenting them about their kewl bikes, etc. Maybe negative reactions to negative experiences engender more negative experiences, and positive ones engender positive ones. I live in the optimism that's how it works, anyways. At any rate, Mr Nice Guy is immutably irrepressible, so I think he'll stick around. cheers, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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Tom Keats wrote: In article , "greggery peccary" @.@ writes: i going to start carrying rocks. maybe make a little bag for them on my handlebar. no more mr nice guy... :-( "He's five foot two and he's six feet four, He fights with missiles and with spears ..." Don't do it! Too much risk of collateral damage, for one thing. And a bag of rocks just doesn't look good on a bike; that would almost be as bad as shopping bags slung on the handlebar. You can't put a shopping bag on the handlebar? OOPS. I did that Saturday. Am I ousted from the kewl bicycle riders union? I passed the supermarket, I needed bread. It was a light plastic bag and it had a handle. It was nicely slung over the handlebars all the way home. It had a nice slogan on it. It read....SHOP-RITE. So I biked and shopped. Makes sense to me. All Good Things. Maggie (The bag lady) |
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In article .com,
"Maggie" writes: You can't put a shopping bag on the handlebar? OOPS. I did that Saturday. Am I ousted from the kewl bicycle riders union? Naw, you're forgiven. This time. But casually hanging stuff on a beautiful bicycle is kinda like putting ketchup on tenderloin, or t.p.ing a Frank Lloyd Wright house. I passed the supermarket, I needed bread. Somewhere I read a theory that the word 'pannier' is etymologically rooted in the French 'pain' (bread) -- the idea being that panniers would be useful for carrying baguettes. But I figure if that were the case, panniers either wouldn't have lids, or they'd be a lot longer/higher. I prefer to believe the word is based on the Greek 'pan' (everything). Ultimately I don't really care where the word 'pannier' comes from. The word is there, and we can use it all we want. That's good enough for me. It was a light plastic bag and it had a handle. It was nicely slung over the handlebars all the way home. Did ya end up kickin' it with each near-side pedal stroke? :-) Anyhow, while a loaf of bread is probably harmless, it's generally safer to not have stuff dangling near the front wheel. cheers, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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