that is certainly a bizarre one. "All kinds of people" very much touches on the perception thing that some folks have of someone on a bike. I could be way off base, but I assume this comes from the wide social divide of there being more poor folks around, and homeless people using bikes, so "concerns" over seeing a "suspect" individual riding past, maybe up to "no good"?
One could also suspect that some nosey old busy-body made the calls and the cops felt obliged to respond.
Heck a few years back I got pulled over in my car by a cop because I was driving 90k in a 100-110 zone, so 55mph in a 65 zone. Practically no one on this two lane in each direction interstate type highway, a sunny calm day, and the cop told me I was driving too slowly, could be dangerous......I think the chances were pretty good that he and his buddy (a second police car showed up also) were bored and needed to break up the day. Or he imagined a drunk driving slowly not to be noticed-- who the heck knows, kinda like your story.
A friend of mine called the people reporting me “curtain twitchers” kind along the line of
Gladys Kravitz. The sky had darkened…it was misting…but it was no where near sundown. I was riding on US61 which is a major highway without being an interstate but it had, at that point, some of the widest shoulders I’d ridden on so far. The shoulder was 10 to 12 feet (a full car lane) wide and I wasn’t riding near the white line. I took the comment about being “worried” about me as more of a concern for my safety rathe than someone thinking I was up to no good.
I didn’t, by the way, get mad about the incident. It was so bizarre that I laughed about it for the rest of the day’s ride.
oh, whats the story with the upside down big mushroom way up on a pine tree branch?
I really have no idea. There were lots of mushrooms at the campground (as well as mosquitoes!) and the one up the tree was too far up to have been thrown there. I suspect squirrels were eating them but I didn’t know squirrels ate mushrooms. Maybe one went on a little bit of a trip
