Old 03-19-08 | 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by bike2math
I'm calling BS. I've never met a driver who at the same time: honked at me, was willing to stop and talk, kept the discussion civil, kept the discussion rational, willingly turned the conversation away from "you have no right to be in the road", didn't call me a ******.

In my experience you can have at most three of these at a time but all six!! Unheard of, the bicycling equivalent of a unicorn or mermaid.
Now that you mention it, I think I did hit the jackpot with this guy. Seriously, I'm not making up any of this story. But it was "only" 5--this "conversation" was held entirely on the road as we moved down the campus driveway.
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