...just what it sounds like, not an album title.

So the wife and I are out enjoying a bike ride on Sunday, out on sparsely-traveled county roads. We pass a car maybe every 6 or 7 minutes, and other bikes at relatively the same frequency. Coming towards us is a huge, black, new suburban, and it's tailgating a guy on a road bike really closely. It can't pass him for like 30 seconds because a car is coming from behind us too. Just as we get parallel with it, the window rolls down, and the driver (angry-looking 40ish mom type) yells out at us "This is a rooooad, not a bike paaaath!!!" and then sped off before I could digest what'd happened.

What was her point? That bikes shouldn't be on the road? Because it's certainly legal, popular, and understandable. That we shouldn't have been on that road? There were more bikes that day than cars, maybe, though there was nothing close to "traffic."

Help me understand this.

people in wisconsin are bitches?

road behavior will cause the next civil war in this country

This has mostly been one of the most recreation-friendly places I've ever seen. When the temps hit 50, the shorts and frisbees come out of the woodwork. Can't make sense of it.

Nothing to make sense of. Every state in the union contains a goodly number of fucking rednecks!

last night i was out for a run and this clown rolls right through an intersection just as i'm crossing. i weave around his car and give his bumper a good slap as i go by. he pulls up beside me and starts losing it. both him and his wife were just livid, screaming obscenities, threatening to call the police. not much i could do besides give 'em the old fuck you and run off. on another run, i ended up on the hood of a pizza delivery guys car. he was doing a right turn on a red. i thought he was going to stop and well, he didn't. it's almost scary being a pedestrian or cyclist in TO. i commute from downtown to the suburbs 2-3 times a week and i've come soooo close to getting squished too many times.

There are idiots everywhere dude.

Here are the top ten shows on TV according to Nielsen ratings:

1 American Idol-Tuesday
2 Desperate Housewives
3 American Idol-Wednesday
3 CSI:Miami
5 Amer Idol-Thu Rslt Show(S)
6 Survivor: Palau Wed SPCL(S)
7 CSI: NY CBS
8 CBS NCAA BBLL CHMP2-EASTR(S)
8 House FOX
8 Two And A Half Men



Read into that what you will.

(No offense to the Survivor fans on here)

It's my hangup, or least in the losing attempt to make sense of it. I should know better. But the one nugget of optimism I cling to is that maybe people aren't as bad as I think they are. And then they go and prove me wrong.

"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart"-Anne Frank

my favorite thing yelled at me from a car.

"THE BEATLES ARE DEAD DUDE, LOSE THE SIDE-BURNS"

i have pretty normal looking, more 90210 than hippie side-burns.

She was yelling because in this modern age of ours you have to do everything as fast as possible.

Human progress is measured in minutes and seconds; didn't you know?

that was me with a wig

[quote="jewels santana"]my favorite thing yelled at me./quote]

"The emperor is powerful man, but he lives very far away." Passing a homeless man on the street while carrying a lit spliff, PDX, OR.

wow. that is funny.

this has been a HUGE problem in boulder for a while. there have been intentional hit-and-runs between cars and bikers. you always hear stories of people pulling over and fist-fights breaking out. but the bikers aren't totally innocent. a couple of summers ago, groups of 30-40 bikers would get together and block off the entire road just to be asses. the police would always end up showing up and dispersing the crowd.

i don't mind that bikers are on the roads. i just can't stand when they are fully decked out in their "US Postal Service" tight shirts and tight shorts and the dudes have shaved legs. that's when i feel like swerving a little to the right.

i think we can all blame Spyhunter.
they made it so fun to bump into the bikers.

perhaps you would like to rest them on my bosom????

yes, yes i would.

man i should have really got rid of those question marks. hot chicks who are coming unto you aren't really confused, or asking for that matter, i don't think.

i almost hate riding my bike now because of dickheads in cars.

i don't like it when they have their own lane and STILL veer out of it. or if there isnt' a lane, pretending they're a motorcycle & sticking to the middle of the road.

i was walking about of law school one night and some kids in a big truck yelled something about "jew" to me - really crazy.

That 40-biker moving roadblock crap happens here sometimes too. I got stuck behind a rolling wave of unwashed, bushy-headed hippydom for a good 30 minutes and traveled maybe a mile and a half on the way home once (street parking @ home, every second counted). Only like 2 of them even had it together enough to put homemade signs on their backs letting us know why we were being completely denied access to one of the major roads in town for as long as they chose to hold it. By the time one of them got careless and didn't block a turn lane on the left side 100%, I got my truck 1/2 up on the curb, got around, and made damn sure I pulled as much of a wheel as a 4-cyl '89 4wd 'yota will pull with 31-inch tires on it. And I also made sure that I got that spinning tire within 2 feet of the nearest biker, and the whites of his eyes in the side mirror were oh-so satisfying.

Their point was lost on me. They were attempting to protest Bush's run for pres. I fervently agreed with that point, but did they have to f-up half of the town to make it, illegally I might add? Answer: no, they did not. They probably blocked 90% friendlies... they chose the east side of madison, which is as liberal as it gets. And I have NO patience for rudeness, in any form. None.

And before you judge me, you sit behind something like that for not just 10 minutes (at which point the sympathy starts wearing off a bit) but a full 30 minutes minimum. I was being openly cheered for helping to open a lane.

when i lived in madison, i got very good at playing 'share the road' while driving, but i was always too terrified to ride my bike downtown. that said, it really pisses me off when do not follow the same rules as everyone else, ie. stopping at stop signs and red lights. some bikers in that town have a death wish.

I do this all the time. If I'm ever driving I yell "get a car!" when I see a bike. It pretty much rules.