Ok you knuckle heads got my thread ( http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=422550 ) locked before I could post this.
Hopefully I don't tick off the Mods by posting this. Please do not attemt to resume the bikkering. It really did not belong on the other thread and it absolutley does not belong here.

Ok so I never said anyone was an jerk for not waving to me in fact I never said I felt one way or the other towards them.. Never the less the thread became about aholes & elitist roadies somehow.

Now who is an jerk and who is not. Well lets go outside and take a walk down the street.
That guy over there .. jerk, her jerk, the traffic cop definite jerk, two year old kid .. future jerk. The motherly looking type over there, you guessed it .. jerk . Okay joking over now.

I hear a lot of people defending their not acknowledging people that first acknowledge them by saying that they are working too hard, or don't see the other person in time ( a few just plain admit they are jerks : ) okay valid points, but we all know when someone who looks like they are going to blow up from their effort at any second. It's the ones who are not in any such state that confound me.

I mean it's just manners plain and simple I say good morning and you say good morning back. Don't hear me cool ,no harm no foul. Know damn good and well you heard me, yep you guessed it jerk. Same thing on the bike if you blow someone off who makes an attempt to be friendly to you then you are likely being a jerk.

Yes we all have bad days where we would prefer that everyone would just screw off and die, but even then if we have predisposed ourselves to responding positively to others who are positive to us we will likely respond and we will even feel just a little better for doing it.

So do I acknowledge you to get a response. No, but it's nice if you do, but my day will not end if you don't and maybe , just maybe you will feel a little better because I did acknowledge you. Maybe your ego needed that today. Or you may think who is this weirdo fred on the touring bike, and why the hell is he waving at me.
Anyway thats all I have to say about that

If you can keep it civil .. feel frre to discuss otherwise lets end it here.