Originally Posted by
Chris516
I stupidly tell them, thinking that one day they will just trust me to know what I am doing.
Yep. I was talking to my daughter just tonight about how we often think the people around us can handle truth- (Nicholson impression here "You can't handle the truth!")- in a reasonable way. A great deal of the time, it turns out they can't, but hope springs eternal. I asked my daughter if she thought I was behaving irresponsibly as a parent when I practiced VC. (I had read in a different thread that one female cyclist was approached by a co-worker who said that if she had a child she wouldn't behave so irresponsibly.) My daughter's response was "No. It's just not proper." I wish I could anticipate all my relatives being so civil if the subject comes up on Thanksgiving but not if last year is any indicator.