Was waiting in the left turn lane for the light to change. As he crossed in front of me the while making his own left, cager told me "Sidewalk!". Which would have been stupid even if there had BEEN a sidewalk on that road. I mean CAN you make a left turn from the sidewalk? But since there WAS no sidewalk, I can only assume he meant that I should forget about getting to my destination and only ride WHERE there are sidewalks. Of course I couldn't explain any of this as he was gone in a second.... probably to his job as a pricechecker at the Dollar Store....

It's always amusing when they tell you to use something that doesn't exist. That and part of the word sideWALK should have given him a clue.

Yeah, I recall once being out riding with a friend. We're waiting at the red light in the left turn lane—you know, to turn left. A motorist rolls down her window and asks "What are you doing in the left turn lane?" My friend responds "Taking a left turn."

Classic.

Your friend could have also said..."Um, waiting for the light to turn green."

Shout back "FREEWAY!"

Yeah, my favorite response is, "ROAD bike!"

You know you can't win. Once, I was riding to our downtown area near my house on my folder because my ankle was hurting so I didn't feel like walking. My wife and her friend were walking on the sidewalk with me basically coasting along just behind them and we were chatting as we went along. An old guy cursed me out for riding on the sidewalk. That was just the beginning of an interesting ride/walk.

Yup!

Any Americans ever had full water bottles thrown at you from a moving vehicle at 40 MPH?

We have become sooo anti-social. It's poison. Everything is about me me me me me, and now it's turning.... Them Them Them Them!

This, considering the title of the post, is deliciously ironic.

I've had a half-full water bottle thrown at me at about 25 MPH. At that speed, it was just an annoyance.


Somebody here a while ago said that they comfort themselves by remembering that the hostile driver has demonstrated himself/herself to be a bigger jerk than the 99.9% of the drivers on the road who didn't yell. That's something to think about. When friends ask me why bicyclists flagrantly disregard the rules of the road, I try to convince them that it's a small minority of bicyclists but that it happens to be the ones they notice. A similar argument obviously applies to "cagers."

side-what?

"Garage" or "Junkyard!"

I prefer "Parking Lot".

Round here in Arkansaw, they's prefer beer bottles fer throwin. The glass gives better impact than plastic. But last time they tried it they missed: maybe something to do with the fact that they'd been drinking while they were driving!

Once someone threw a bag of fries, but they forgot the ketsup.

There should be a new show hosted by Bill Cosby called, "Drivers Say the Funniest Things."

One day I was waiting at a stop light. The light turns green and as I ride straight through some guy in an old pickup yells out, "shave your legs!" Apparently he prefers to see men with shaven legs. I am not going to fullfil that request even if it does makes me more aero.

I had a guy yell "get on the sidewalk!" once when I was riding in the bike lane. I pointed out that there was a bicycle painted directly underneath me. He shut up pretty quickly.

While at a stoplight I had a guy tell me I shouldn't be in the road during rush because "people were trying to get to work". I replied, "Yep, so am I". He really didn't have a reply for that.

Best I ever had was some teenager leen about half way out the passenger window and just scream as they passed me. All I could think is I really hope that wasn't suppose to make me look stupid.

Favorite moment: The day of the local marathon, my wife and I are riding our bikes downtown, not very far from the finish line. This marathon is a big event, and traffic around downtown is severely snarled. While waiting at a light, a motorist in the right-turn lane leans out his window and yells "It's your fault traffic is all messed up!" We laugh.

Second-favorite moment: out for a ride in the country, slowly climbing a hill after a long day in the saddle. A beached whale of a woman ensconced on her front porch sees us and yells "Get a car!" My riding partner yells back "Get a life!"

Man, I don't want to live where you guys live.

While riding in a bike lane one day, passing a huge line up of stopped traffic on my left, I came upon a motor vehicle parked in the bike lane, apparently the driver thought this would somehow give her magical powers to escape the traffic (you know, like a cyclist can). After scaring her half to death by knocking on her back window (she apparently wasn't expecting a cyclist in the bike lane) she pulls into her lane and yells at me while I start passing, "Get on the sidewalk!" Referring to the wide sidewalk to my right. I look over, look ahead and back to her, then point at the bike lane, "This is a BIKE lane, THAT is your CAR lane..." She gets quite hysterical and kind of re-iterates her sidewalk rant. I respond by saying, "I am in my legal travel lane. If you stay there, in your legal lane, then there is no problem!" I left her laughing maniacally in her stationary car as I rode away.

If it was a newish car, you should have said "how's that car payment treating you".

To the shouted "get on the bike path" when there isn't one for miles around, I have to say "I'm on it" if I say anything at all. And a couple weeks ago, riding to work it the dark, some gomer rolls his window down to scream "get a car *****!!!"

eh, what?

too funny. . .the forum's language nanny autobot edits the term for a female dog to read *****. . . .yeesh. . . .