Thread: Was I wrong?
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Old 11-26-13 | 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by lhendrick
I was yelled at while touring across Europe this past Summer. In Austria on a bike path, I was flying along to get into Linz (downhill of course) on my fully loaded touring steel beast after 60 miles of sweating, when I heard from behind, "Achtung !!" - I nearly crashed laughing, and screamed back "Zeig Heil !!" as I moved over to let them pass on their carbon panzers. The very proper Austrians were not amused. Was I wrong? Ha! God bless the bastids', they make some great bikes and bike paths
"Achtung" is the normal German expression for "watch out" or "pay attention," so your response was totally out of line and offensive as it had Nazi connotations.
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