First ride of the year + cussing rant
02-18-10, 12:22 PM
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02-18-10, 01:00 PM
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what happened to his ride?
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02-18-10, 01:00 PM
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are you feeling better now? need a hug?
are you feeling better now? need a hug?
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02-18-10, 03:35 PM
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ouch. hope he's ok. i must have missed the thread.
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02-18-10, 03:40 PM
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try to shrug it off and don't take it personally
school kids have to develop their judgment. I remember saying something to a girl while we were at our lockers and I have no recollection of why I said what I said (7th grade). the music teacher called me aside a scolded me, without yelling and asked me if I knew the meaning of what I said, and I fained ignorance. now I only say it when I mean it.
too bad you couldn't catch up to the bus and talk to the driver and report the kid. there should have been consequences. that kid hasn't learned his lesson yet. someday he might just say the wrong thing to the wrong person and get a punch in the head.
school kids have to develop their judgment. I remember saying something to a girl while we were at our lockers and I have no recollection of why I said what I said (7th grade). the music teacher called me aside a scolded me, without yelling and asked me if I knew the meaning of what I said, and I fained ignorance. now I only say it when I mean it.
too bad you couldn't catch up to the bus and talk to the driver and report the kid. there should have been consequences. that kid hasn't learned his lesson yet. someday he might just say the wrong thing to the wrong person and get a punch in the head.
02-18-10, 03:49 PM
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I always like to describe carnal knowledge of their moms to them and smile and wave as the bus drives off.
02-18-10, 04:03 PM
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02-18-10, 04:22 PM
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I know it's sometimes easy to snap when you take crap unexpectedly , but you got to get a little thicker skinned.. Yep, I've snapped a couple times. High Schoolers's have been my most common source of crap. One even successfully spat at me(Knee) at a light.. . I've had it worse. I was boarding a train in Klamath Falls, Oregon.. Riding past a trailer park, some kids started chasing me, said they were going to beat the crap out of me.. I was dressed in street clothes.. My bike was faster than they could run, and I got to the train station where they gave up their attack. Totally unprovoked. So , expect the worse. Don't screw with them if you can help it. Some are nuts and you just might find that they have some kind of weapon..
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02-18-10, 05:40 PM
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I know it's sometimes easy to snap when you take crap unexpectedly , but you got to get a little thicker skinned.. Yep, I've snapped a couple times. High Schoolers's have been my most common source of crap. One even successfully spat at me(Knee) at a light.. . I've had it worse. I was boarding a train in Klamath Falls, Oregon.. Riding past a trailer park, some kids started chasing me, said they were going to beat the crap out of me.. I was dressed in street clothes.. My bike was faster than they could run, and I got to the train station where they gave up their attack. Totally unprovoked. So , expect the worse. Don't screw with them if you can help it. Some are nuts and you just might find that they have some kind of weapon..
i bet you can ride faster than a speeding bullet.
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02-18-10, 06:13 PM
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But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
02-18-10, 06:19 PM
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Not sure, but Looked like they only had their bare hands as weapons.. Glad they were not members of some high school track team.. There was two of them and one of me..
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02-18-10, 06:29 PM
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What's even worse is when you're on a mountain bike trail where you think none of your friends would walk, and you're summit-ing the giant climb, breathing heavily, sweating heavily. And you're in your bike shorts. And there's one of the popular girls with a bunch of her friends going for a leisurely stroll.
But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
02-18-10, 06:33 PM
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What's even worse is when you're on a mountain bike trail where you think none of your friends would walk, and you're summit-ing the giant climb, breathing heavily, sweating heavily. And you're in your bike shorts. And there's one of the popular girls with a bunch of her friends going for a leisurely stroll.
But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
i read this so quickly i misread it as "skirts"
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02-18-10, 06:35 PM
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What's even worse is when you're on a mountain bike trail where you think none of your friends would walk, and you're summit-ing the giant climb, breathing heavily, sweating heavily. And you're in your bike shorts. And there's one of the popular girls with a bunch of her friends going for a leisurely stroll.
But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
I just laughed. Hard.
02-18-10, 07:35 PM
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I don't really care what the snickering dudes say. I could beat them in a crit if they wanted to challenge me because of my "panzy" shorts. The girls on the other hand... 
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What's even worse is when you're on a mountain bike trail where you think none of your friends would walk, and you're summit-ing the giant climb, breathing heavily, sweating heavily. And you're in your bike shorts. And there's one of the popular girls with a bunch of her friends going for a leisurely stroll.
But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
But, we have a road bike club at school and every Friday we roll out of the gate in our kits. It gets some laughs from the people in cars, but then they realize we're going faster than traffic.
02-18-10, 07:54 PM
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I know that, and it's not like I socialize with them, but word gets around school, and often skewed for dramatic effect. Luckily nobody I know closely really cared as they know I'm a bike geek.