Living Car Free - i got called a hippie today...

Ok, so im down at the grocery store, getting some milk and bread, my bike is ouside locked up, but ive still got my helmet on. as im paying for the things, the lady started putting them im bags, so i told her not too that i didnt need them so i put them in my back pack and put the milk on my bike rack...anyways, an old man behind me said under his breath, but loudly enough that everyone heard him "you dam hippie"....is it wrong that i laughed at him? i thought it was funny...ive never been called a hippie before.

steve

I always take it as a compliment. :)

Someone complaining about how you weren't using bags (and gasoline) that you didn't need?

You using less bags and gasoline means lower grocery prices and lower gas prices for everybody else. Not a very smart thing to be mad about. :)

But then, maybe I'm a hippie too.

Far out, man!

Was he joking? If serious, that sounds more like a reaction someone would have had in, say, 1972.

Do you have long hair?

Let's form a club for people who keep their helmets on in grocery stores! :D

and... Groovy!

haha, my hair isnt that long, and it was in my toque and my helmet, so none of it was showing. and he was serious haha. im down with that hemet in the store club haha, can i be prez?

steve

wow... I could be the author of this post... 'cept I'd have to replace "you dam hippie" with "tree hugger"

...ive never been called a hippie before.
Stick around here and I guarantee it'll happen again! Peace, man...

maybe you were taking too long? Regardless, guy sounds like an ass... Should have turned around and cleaned his clock, and then been like, "betcha never had a hippie punch ya!"

is it wrong that i laughed at him?
steve

....no that's a really GOOD response.
'Hahaaaa, right you half dead raisin. Shut up!'

Hippies are WAY cooler than car\class oldies.
I'm 40. 'Get the ___ outta my way you autonomous jerk.'

wow... I could be the author of this post... 'cept I'd have to replace "you dam hippie" with "tree hugger"

Tree hugging is an extremely rewarding experience, and one that I would recommend to anyone.

....no that's a really GOOD response.
'Hahaaaa, right you half dead raisin. Shut up!'


:roflmao:

Ok, so im down at the grocery store, getting some milk and bread, my bike is ouside locked up, but ive still got my helmet on. as im paying for the things, the lady started putting them im bags, so i told her not too that i didnt need them so i put them in my back pack and put the milk on my bike rack...anyways, an old man behind me said under his breath, but loudly enough that everyone heard him "you dam hippie"....is it wrong that i laughed at him? i thought it was funny...ive never been called a hippie before.

steve

Congratulations, that was an important rite of passage. You are now an individual, and no longer a sheep.

Take it as a compliment. And yeah, I would have laughed too.

i get it all the time
'damn hippie'
'tree hugger'
'environmental wacko' (my favorite because the ignorance is so frustrating)
'enviro freak'

where has the concept of protecting or at least trying to have a minimal impact on the beauty God has allowed us to borrow from our children become such a bad stereotype.

-where has the concept of protecting or at least trying to have a minimal impact on the beauty God has allowed us to borrow from our children become such a bad stereotype.

WORD!

Treehugger and proud of it.
Guess why I don't drive...=2 tons less carbon in the atmosphere per year.
I own a BMW, never driven it.....o.k once, then parked it the drive.
Gonna flip it and make a trials bike.

i heard two people talking on the subway about the artic drilling debate. one of the woman said something to the effect of "i don't care about some freaking trout 2000 miles away".

arrrgggg!!!!!!!

"those dammed birkenstocked, bunny-huggin', dope-smokin', granola-munching long-hairs". :D That's me! As hippies and as humans, we all need, right now, to take a moment and laugh at ourselves. Aaaand...go!!

Was there not some old Bob Seeger song about red necks- wasted from the neck up. Song can be used as our creed. In the song, Seeger has his hair under his hat.
If I had long hair, guess it would be under my helmet.
I rebel at those who demand conformity. Supposed to be a free country. ? Can't bike, imagine what else one can't do. Laughing is ok. My response would be to say, thanks. Wish I better lived up to my First Amendment rights. Those that do make the world safer for those that follow.

I think laughing is the best way to go. :). I don't think there's a better response to such ignorance.

And yeah, I'll subscribe to the "helmet in grocery store" club (HIGS). There's just never a good place to hang it that's out of the way. The head is a perfet resting place for it. :)

My helmet makes me look more like a dork than a hippie.... Well, I like to blame it on the helmet.

I usually lock my helmet to the bike when I go in a store.

Maybe the guy perceived stevefox to be a threat to the American way of life in Canada? What did "damn hippie" ever really mean anyway?

The old man was pi$$ed 'cause he knows you're going home with munchies, smoking a big bowl and watching Ren and Stimpy.
At home he gets creamed peas, laxatives and Wheel of Fortune.

Well there are worst things to be called; really you should just take it as a compliment. If everyone was a hippy maybe this world would be a better place, but don't quote me on that.

here was always my favorite reply:

" Peace!" http://www.libertarian.ca/images/peace-sign-crosses.jpg
"your half!" http://img.thefreedictionary.com/thumb/b/b1/Middle_finger.JPG

Well there are worst things to be called; really you should just take it as a compliment. If everyone was a hippy maybe this world would be a better place.

It would be a smelly world, with big tumbleweeds of hair stuck in the undergrowth of the Sensimilla forests.

haha, ya, it was pretty funny. i think he came from the generation of people that were older during the 60's and 70's, and have eternally hated people who want change...but i think im honored to officially be a hippie. it feels good to be out of the over conforming, over consuming society...

Peace

Steve

Let the freak flag fly.
Brother.
Mines pretty short these days.

ALMOST CUT MY HAIR
David Crosby

'Almost cut my hair
It happened just the other day
It's gettin kinda long
I coulda said it wasn't in my way
But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly
Cause I feel like I owe it to someone
Must be because I had the flu' for Christmas
And I'm not feeling up to par
It increases my paranoia
Like looking at my mirror and seeing a police car
But I'm not giving in an inch to fear
Cause I missed myself this year
I feel like I owe it to someone
When I finally get myself together
I'm going to get down in that sunny southern weather
And I find a place inside to laugh
Separate the wheat from the chaff
I feel like I owe it to someone.'


Hair
Bad Brains

'People ask me everywhere is that really all your hair, I just tell them that if it ain't, well it sure don't mean that no I can't.
Just don't believe it's fair to judge a man by the lengh of his hair.
Take two words, like hip and square, the truth will shine and not your hair.
Even the blind can damn near see, what's outside you and inside me.
Down or high -the truth or lie...a weak man's laugh can be a strong man's cry.
Black or blond or nappy or fair, you can't judge nobody by hair.
If I thought that you would care, I'd wear a wig up under my hair.
Down or high, the strongmans cry.
People everywhere ask is that really all your hair. I just tell them if it ain't, well it sure don't mean I can't.
I just don't belive it's fair to judge a man by the length of his hair.'

Killer track, download and play freaking loud!

http://files.zite3.com/data/images/15/186/0/FreakBrothers.jpg

Tree hugging is an extremely rewarding experience, and one that I would recommend to anyone.

absolutely!

It's funny. Just before I went to highschool I was kind of a silly kid and I listened to **** like Lip Bisquit (I can't remember how to spell it but I think there was a Z somewhere in there because spelling wrong was "rad") then when I got into highschool I had a personal backlash and I tried to be a hippy. I liked the music (and I still do) but no-one actually bought that I was a hippy. Now I ride my bike everywhere (I was fat till I started riding), smoke my glass pipe (it has a frog on it) under a tree in the park with my best friend. I've given up trying to be a certain way and I just do what makes me happy. Most importantly I don't give a flying turd what people think about me. I get called a hippy all the time. Hippy's have many good qualities like being cool and easy going, they care about the environment, I have some hippy characteristics but I don't feel that I could put myself (or anyone else) into such a narrowly defined social stereotype.

It's funny. Just before I went to highschool I was kind of a silly kid and I listened to **** like Lip Bisquit (I can't remember how to spell it but I think there was a Z somewhere in there because spelling wrong was "rad") then when I got into highschool I had a personal backlash and I tried to be a hippy. I liked the music (and I still do) but no-one actually bought that I was a hippy. Now I ride my bike everywhere (I was fat till I started riding), smoke my glass pipe (it has a frog on it) under a tree in the park with my best friend. I've given up trying to be a certain way and I just do what makes me happy. Most importantly I don't give a flying turd what people think about me. I get called a hippy all the time. Hippy's have many good qualities like being cool and easy going, they care about the environment, I have some hippy characteristics but I don't feel that I could put myself (or anyone else) into such a narrowly defined social stereotype.

Doesn't matter where you are pegged on the social or economic ladder somebody isn't going to like you. Fortunately most us mature beyond such sophomoric BS. unfortunately there is a bunch of people walking around who never did.
This is no lie, One morning last spring I was in a convinence store standing in line to pay for my morning coffee. My son and one of his friends walks in, as usual they look freaky, My kid is wearing S&M pants ( black bells with chains) a "I hate this life" T-shirt and has blue hair. His friend looks similar. They didn't see me as they walked to the cooler for thier morning pepsi fix before school, The hardhat in front of me turns his head and says" have you ever seen a pair of worthless looking sheot heads like those two?" I replied "Nope, but the sheot head with the blue hair belongs to me, he got offers 2 weeks ago from Yale, Cornell and Boston C. The other sheot head is headed to Princeton on a full academic scholarship. You got kids?". The guy apologized.

I live for sheot like this!

Doesn't matter where you are pegged on the social or economic ladder somebody isn't going to like you. Fortunately most us mature beyond such sophomoric BS. unfortunately there is a bunch of people walking around who never did.

Yup, this guy obviously has something that's been stuck up his butt for the last 35 years (that just reveals his inability to deal with life that probably been up there for longer than that)

You're simply "different" than he is. What's wrong with that?

The old man was pi$$ed 'cause he knows you're going home with munchies, smoking a big bowl and watching Ren and Stimpy.
At home he gets creamed peas, laxatives and Wheel of Fortune.
LMAO :lol:

This is no lie, One morning last spring I was in a convinence store standing in line to pay for my morning coffee. My son and one of his friends walks in, as usual they look freaky, My kid is wearing S&M pants ( black bells with chains) a "I hate this life" T-shirt and has blue hair. His friend looks similar. They didn't see me as they walked to the cooler for thier morning pepsi fix before school, The hardhat in front of me turns his head and says" have you ever seen a pair of worthless looking sheot heads like those two?" I replied "Nope, but the sheot head with the blue hair belongs to me, he got offers 2 weeks ago from Yale, Cornell and Boston C. The other sheot head is headed to Princeton on a full academic scholarship. You got kids?". The guy apologized.

I live for sheot like this!

It must have been beautiful to watch that crow go down.