Hey, you dropped your wallet

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bennyk

I was riding in pittsburgh the other day and as I turned left at an intersection, a guy in a truck shouted, "Hey, you dropped your wallet."

Of course, I stopped completely before remembering that my wallet was in my bag, and I didn't have anything in my pockets that could drop.

So basically, I think the guy was messing with me...

and i have to admit, it was a pretty funny joke to pull, since I was turning to go up a pretty serious Pittsburgh hill.

Anyone had this happen before?
bk

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sggoodri

I was riding my bike behind a guy driving a jeep when I saw something fall out of his seat and into the roadway. I picked up his wallet and rode like heck to catch up to him at the next light to give it back. He was very surprised.

Treespeed

Bus stopped this morning to let me pick up a dropped water bottle instead of running it over. I thought that was pretty cool considering what a tough job these folks have and their normal perception of cyclists.

ofofhy

I constantly check my bocket while riding to see if my wallet is still there. I am paranoid some ped will pick my pocket while waiting at a light...

I did have some guy say to me the other day, "Hey, you're dropping papers all over the place!" I was in kind of a trance, and I quickly snapped out of it. Of course I wasn't dropping papers, he was just messing with me.

Roody

One guy yelled, "Hey! Your wheels are turning!" He had me going for a second.

webist

I had a driver tell me I was dropping money on the road. I quickly checked my pockets and sure enough, no money. I rode back a few hundred yards and there it was scattered in the road way.

emilymildew

Which hill?

Crack'n'fail

One guy yelled, "Hey! Your wheels are turning!" He had me going for a second.

I've had this one too, I laughed so hard. I caught him at a stop light and high fived the guy.

I once saw a bunch of cars swerving all over the road and squealing to a stop in front of me. All these drivers were jumping out their cars. When I got closer I realized that they were all grabbing money from the road. A few cars ahead this red faced guy was yelling and running towards them. His wallet had been sitting on a bag of clothes and the wind filled the bag and threw his wallet out the window.

I couldn't believe all those people grabbing his cash and dashing. I could see if he didn't know and had driven off, but come on, he was running at them screaming about it!

sswartzl

I was honked at the other day, and after a few seconds of thinking the driver was just a jerk, I looked back and saw some papers on the road. The map I had been following had fallen out of my pocket.

Rowan

Your tyre's flat!

Like yeah... but it did get me the first couple of times.

You're wheels are turning is a favourite among the brain-impaired neighbourhoods. I just think :"Is that the best you can do". I gave up suggesting they find a brain after I got chased a couple of times -- I didn't know how seriously people took their lack of intellect! :D

I used to have a wallet that sat quite a way out of my back pocket, and people were always telling me I was about to loose it. It's since been replaced by a more compact wallet that fits so the velcro flap works on the pocket -- I've got more money in it now!

I dropped a mobile phone at a traffic light junction. Sure enough, a car ran over it. Fortunately, it was one of those brick dunny kind and wasn't damaged. Unfortunately, the next one I left on the roof of a car as I drove off was returned to me in much less than pristine condition. It was only a month old and given to me by my then-girlfriend -- needless to say, that was the beginning of the end for *that* relationship.

The funniest incident I can recall was dropping a bottle of red Gatorade off the rear rack going down a hill to cross a bridge at 40km/h. The bottle exploded on the road when it hit next to me. The eyes of the guy driving the four-wheel-drive heading towards me in the other lane just about popped out as he thought something dreadful had happened to me. I was just getting my own back for all those other smart-alecs.

bennyk

Which hill?

i guess it was negley at 5th

bk

CommuterRun

Riding home from work one sunny afternoon I noticed a carbide tipped, flat-tip screwdriver laying in the middle of the traffic lane on my side of the road. Initially I kept on rolling, not really sure if I wanted it. Tools like this I like to be in a set. But, decided to go back and get it before some poor soul busted a tire. I get back to it and there's a long line of cars coming, so I'm just hanging out on the side of the road biding my time. The screwdriver is right in the middle of the lane. Every car has no problem straddling it, all they have to do is hold their line and everything is hunky-dory. Then, here comes Jerk-Boy. Jerk-Boy sees me standing there. He see's the screwdriver. He deliberately swerves to hit it with his tires. The front tire kicks it off the road into the undercarriage of his car. It bounces repeatedly and noisily between his car and the road until his rear tire runs over it. This didn't hurt the screwdriver one bit, unfortunately it didn't seem to hurt his car, either. It hurt me only because he didn't bust a tire on it so I could laugh at him for being an idiot. :D

lilHinault

I got a really neat pair of aircraft type pliers off of the road once, near "John Wayne" airport. I used them for years afterward.

khuon

I was once fighting a nasty headwind going across a valley. I was tucked in low and trying to concentrate on my cadence. When I reached the other side of the valley, I looked back and didn't see any of my riding partners. Several minutes past before the one who had been right behind me pulled up. He then withdrew my spare tube out of his jersey pocket and handed it to me. Apparently it fell loose from straps underneath my saddlebag where I stored it. He told me he tried yelling for my attention but I just kept going. He was a little miffed at having to stop and pick it up because that broke his cadence and plus he lost the benefit of my draft. A while ago, I was behind a truck that dislodged a load of tools (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=26898).

jeff-o

I keep all my stuff in button-down pockets, though I know that someday I'll forget and put something in my regular pocket. Surely that item will fall out and be lost forever. I don't look forward to that day...

John Ridley

A few days ago I pulled up to a woman at a light who had just pulled out of a gas station and picked her phone off her roof and handed it to her. Hopefully acts like this will be remembered by drivers.

I've picked up a few tools on the road; a pair of pliers, a wrench, a couple of sockets, a screwdriver. Last fall a big grain shovel blew out of a pickup a bit in front of me; I stopped to get it out of the road, wound up handing it back to the guy when he looped back for it.

emilymildew

i guess it was negley at 5th

Hott. That's one of my favorite hills in this city.

Every day as I ride past it and take a different hill to get where I'm going, I shake my fist at it and vow that I will pwn it before I move out of here.

Metro

I have had a couple of kids shoot "Silly String" (that stringy stuff dispensed from an aeresol can) at me as I rode by once, years ago. It really startled me for a moment, but was very funny when I realized how harmless the Silly String was. Maybe we should all carry a can to use on rude motorists!

powers2b

SpokesInMyPoop

I would have hit re-dial and then handed it to her and said "it's for you"

Enjoy

lol p2b

a few months ago, I was walking the last mile in my commute due to a flat tire >:P There was a Qwest guy working on a pole alongside the sidewalk (if only they were put in the middle of the road...). I noticed a cell phone a few feet away, so I stopped and asked him "Is this your phone?". He told me "Yeah... I dropped that a few minutes ago", so I picked it up, and put it in his worktruck. I saw him again a few days later, and he yelled out to me "Were you the one that picked up my phone?" I nodded yes, and he gave me a nice smile :)

There's something about being helpful to people that makes me warm inside. I try to do good deeds when they present themselves. *feeling fuzzy*

Metro

Don't you just hate those guys who turn your frowns upside down when you least expect it?

This thread did not start out this way, but it is a nice turn. :)

titanium

today i got some passenger in a car stick his middle finger up at me, with a grin on his face. So clever arent they.

Swiss Hoser

I passed a guy on the commute last week and I could tell he was pissed off. I was on my MTB and he was on a road bike. (Doesn't matter.)
Anyway, I maintained eye-contact on the way by, and after he finished scowling, I informed him that he was about to lose his packet of Kleenex.
His scowl turned into a grateful grin.

powers2b

I was riding home last night and merged into the center lane to make a left.
A car pulled up next to me and the driver started shouting at me.
I turned to look and he had a big grin on his face. He could tell I didn't understand what he said the first time so he repeated it.
"25 miles an hour! your doing great!"
I gave him the thumbs up and shouted "Thanks" before turning.

Enjoy

Rowan

Allister

The oddest thing I've seen fall out of a vehicle was a queen size mattress.

I was driving behind a small truck that had a steel cage on the tray. It was full nearly to the top, with the mattress right on top. There was no roof on the cage, and the driver had foolishly failed to tie down the load. When we hit the 80km/h zone the lower air pressure over the top of the truck was sufficient to lift the mattress high into the air and onto the road. fortunately I wasn't following very closely and could swerve to avoid it. I then had to chase him down to inform him of his loss.

I wonder how many people had run over it before he got there.

bennyk

yeah, once i was behind a guy who lost a couple of wooden kitchen chairs...

they basically destructed on impact, but when i caught up with him he had no idea what happened.

a friend of mine spilled a palette of 3/4" plywood from a truck in the middle of an intersection once...from what i hear it took 35 minutes for him to clean it up...by himself.

bk

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