Originally Posted by HiYoSilver
Unfortunately you choose a "me need to feel good" response instead of a "me need to enlighten fellow commuter" response.
1. bike commuters are a micro presense. Whatever we all can do to promote safe bike commuting helps us all.
2. the goal should be to open a dialog to the benefits of biking.
I am never good when put on the spot like that, but a response that might cause your regular fellow commuter to rethink his position might be something along these lines:
"You're right. Managing money is important. I find time is harder to manage so I combine my commute and workout times. Pretty good Health club fees, right?"
Others may have better alternative responses. If you tried your approach here, you might very quickly find yourself under the wheels of a cowboy truck. Just so you know.
Hi 'o
Um. Um. Yeah, I don't know why I never thought of trying to enlighten the minds of the toothless redneck flying a big stars and bars on his pickup.
I'm partial to the "Someone has to be in shape to do your wife" comment and the "get a bike" outpacing manuver. I dunno how I'd feel about opening someone's back door, especially since it will jut into traffic and it provides a great weapon to kill me with.
Really tho, unless they start throwing things, I tend to leave the matter alone. As degrading as it can be for 10 seconds, after 60 seconds more pedalling, I don't care. I am one to call the cops at a moments notice if I feel in danger however, and they get nice letters from me all the time. (no sarcasm, they really do get nice letters from me).