I get the craziest comments

lisaiesha

when I ride my bike in town. A selection:

"Get out of the road, diicksmoke"

"Whore"

"Wassup"

"Biotch"

They were all yelled by young males in passing cars.

Perhaps my all time favorite was yelled at me by what looked to be a homeless guy walking down the street. He told me, "You could stand to lose a little weight".

So, is it me, or is it just where I live?

_Fenton

I always forget about d!cksmoke! Good curse.

I yell at bikers because I don't think bikers belong on the road with cars. I think you should be on a shoulder or sidewalk. If I hit you, I go to jail!  Not fair.

lisaiesha

Listen, diicksmoke, sidewalks are for pedestrians.

CaliopeSpidrman

I live in the sort of town where you're more likely to be yelled at for being in a car than you are for being on a bike.

noisy_penguin

I got hit by a bike messenger riding on the sidewalk once. One concussion, one ambulance ride, and one completely failed anthropology test later (dicck professor refused to let me take it later, despite my police report and hospital note - I ended up getting less than a 20%), I get have become the sort of person who yells at bikers on sidewalks.

FallinAgain

I hate bikers mostly because all the ones in Chicago/Evanston acted like both vehicles and pedestrians.  If you are riding in the street, you have to stop at stop signs not act like a pedestrian in the crosswalk.

lisaiesha

Bikers are supposed to act like vehicles (but stay to the right side, obviously). I am guilty of crossing in a crosswalk from time to time when I thought it was safer. Drivers are crazy.

pdxmouse

I tell Bug she has to walk her bike in a crosswalk.

It's weird that all the bike riders are in the NW and you get yelled at for not being in a car in Reno (which is pretty sunny iirc). 

FallinAgain

lisaiesha:

Bikers are supposed to act like vehicles (but stay to the right side, obviously). I am guilty of crossing in a crosswalk from time to time when I thought it was safer. Drivers are crazy.

Do you stop at the stop sign or walk across the crosswalk? I'm talking about the bicyclists that blow through the intersection on their bikes as if they have the right of way like pedestriand and don't have to obey the stop signs.

 

lisaiesha

You mean when people cross in a crosswalk, but all the other traffic is stopped? No, I don't do that. People aren't pedestrian friendly here, either so we would never allow pedestrians to cross unless the traffic also had a green light.

Mouse, yes, it is sunny here a lot. And there are a lot of cyclists. I think people here are just a-holes when they're driving. I think that even when I am also in a car.

KristenBtobe

Yesterday the kids had music class at the church 2 blocks up from our house. It was snowing, so I decided it was more trouble to clean off the car and strap them in their seats than it was just to walk. So we bundled up, I put Owen in the Beco (non) crotch dangler, and off we went. Some man pulled over and asked all concerned "where are you going with those babies?" Apparently it appeared I was some downtrodden who needed help, and PS, like I'd get in the car with you, sir.

jens_a_ten

KristenBtobe:

Yesterday the kids had music class at the church 2 blocks up from our house. It was snowing, so I decided it was more trouble to clean off the car and strap them in their seats than it was just to walk. So we bundled up, I put Owen in the Beco (non) crotch dangler, and off we went. Some man pulled over and asked all concerned "where are you going with those babies?" Apparently it appeared I was some downtrodden who needed help, and PS, like I'd get in the car with you, sir.

Well, you were only wearing one of them. No wonder he was concerned. Poor, sweet little Maggie, in the snow, with no one to love or comfort her.