Originally Posted by HuffyMan

I’ve read a lot of posts about people getting things thrown at them and generally harassed. My experience is different. First, let me say that I live in a hive of rednecks. Mullets, manufactured housing, loud diesel pickups modified to smoke like a tramp steamer. I am surrounded by dentally challenged inbreeds that NEVER give me a hard time, if fact they allow me a wide berth and give a finger wave (the good one). My issue is with………Shriners. Whoa you say, those guys are awesome in parades and my kids love them. Well, that’s fine but when they go home or to the store in their giant boat like Cadillacs, they are a menace to cyclists. Picture your basic Shriner, fez in the backseat, leaning into the steering wheel, mouth slightly agape, squinting and going 45. They creep up behind me and blow the horn repeatedly (to let me know they are there). Then ease by nicking my panniers with their door handles not even giving an inch. Take down their license number … not an option, because affixed to that plate is a nice Fraternal Order of Police badge. All I’d probably get out of the deal is a cavity search. Hell, he’s probably the former chief.
So I’ll take rednecks any day. You can have the Shriners maybe Mason’s too but they’re too secret.