I just love it when you tell someone that you have ridden half way across the country and they then warn you about some hill between you and the grocery store or whatever as if you have never seen one.
Another good one is when they look at the bike the gear and stuff and ask if you got here on that “push bike”, I always want to answer no we have our motorcycle in the big stuff sac on back.
After many years of touring I have been warned about the mean nasty people down the road many times (always down the road never from where I have come from). HUM