Living Car Free - Peer pressure to ride in cars (awful aimlog itt)

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thelung
11-24-05, 10:21 PM
z0mg lol is supposedly car free but check this out:

(00:10:41) z0mg lol: ps you wanna ride around, end at my house, then have chip drive all of us to food?
(00:11:11) z0mg lol: cause he wants to drive
(00:11:43) iam thelung: lol **** drivin ill ride there on my own
(00:11:45) iam thelung: :)
(00:11:53) iam thelung: but if you wanna go with chip its ok mr lazy
(00:12:02) z0mg lol: you sure?
(00:12:20) z0mg lol: just do it! everyone else isssss
(00:12:31) iam thelung: *wont sell out*
(00:12:56) z0mg lol: its carpooling
(00:13:37) z0mg lol: if you get driven i'll give you two bucks for getting in
(00:15:12) iam thelung: lol
(00:15:18) iam thelung: wtf car peer pressure
(00:15:22) z0mg lol: do it do it do it
(00:15:31) z0mg lol: find dont :(

Does this happen to anyone else- times when car driving friends try to force you to ride with them?

zelah
11-24-05, 10:24 PM
Faek Faek Delete Delete
BeTheChange
11-24-05, 10:54 PM
My girlfriend likes for me to come along with her when she runs errands or we go to dinner. Doesn't bother me much cause she enjoys my company and I'm on the way. Most of my friends just realize that I'd rather ride and don't really get it so they don't have a foot to stand on if they try to argue me into riding in a car.

That's damn funny that your friend is car-free though. It really doesn't sound like it.

Brad M
11-25-05, 03:53 PM
I'm guessing you have some stairs in your house.
zelah
11-26-05, 01:44 PM
we are protected

also, he ended up taking the ride
thelung
11-26-05, 02:01 PM
o **** goons r evywhr
worker4youth
11-26-05, 09:53 PM
Carpooling is leaps and bounds beyond what the general public does. You don't have to eliminate cars COMPLETELY from your life, to be "car free" in my book. Besides, adding your extra 150 pounds in the vehicle would have reduced gas consumption by less than 1 mpg.

I would have gone along...where's your sense of camaderie with "cager" friends? ;)
humancongereel
11-26-05, 11:38 PM
i don't ride with people most of the time. if it's a long distance early in the morning, i'll take it, you know? if i have a flat, i'll take it. if i figure my friend isn't going to ride a bike and we should talk, i'll do it. most of the time, i'd rather do the same thing. it's funner to ride a bike anyway. i don't care if "funner" isn't a word.
thelung
11-27-05, 12:19 AM
I ended up riding in the car because it was night, 0 degrees c, I didnt know how to get there, and I was "on the way." I was only being half serious in the aim log, but I have had other times where friends or my mom will try to get me to ride with them when I wanna bike.