Another Walker Etiquette Question?
12-03-10 | 04:21 PM
#26
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From: SoCa
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Yeah, ya gotta watch out for those self-righteous old ladies. I was on my way to work a couple of weeks ago, still wearing my neck brace and sitting in one of the seats on the crowded commuter light rail (we call it a "Skytrain" here in Vancouver) reserved for the handicapped (which I figured the neck brace would qualify me for) when this obnoxious old woman says to me, "senior lady with a walker coming, you'll have to move!" and this old woman shuffles aboard with a walker. Fortunately, another gentleman got up, so I took his place and the shriveled old woman with the walker took the handicapped seat. But I was quite offended at how rude this first old woman was!
I find that what often works with pushy people, especially if you are 6'1" and 175 lbs, is to just "accidentally" body-check them into the boards. You have to quickly apologize profusely for your clumsiness, but it's worth it to teach them a lesson as they climb up out of the cheap seats! I use this with guys that try to get onto the crowded Skytrain before I've had a chance to get off, or for guys who are just plain inconsiderate and block your path.
L.
I find that what often works with pushy people, especially if you are 6'1" and 175 lbs, is to just "accidentally" body-check them into the boards. You have to quickly apologize profusely for your clumsiness, but it's worth it to teach them a lesson as they climb up out of the cheap seats! I use this with guys that try to get onto the crowded Skytrain before I've had a chance to get off, or for guys who are just plain inconsiderate and block your path.
L.
Body checking "mature" ladies... priceless. Your best one to date.
12-03-10 | 04:50 PM
#27
Dharma Dog
Joined: Mar 2006
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From: Vancouver, Canada
Bikes: Rodriguez Shiftless street fixie with S&S couplers, Kuwahara tandem, Trek carbon, Dolan track
That said, I've always thought that if you want to race bikes, you have to have the mindset that you're willing to lay down your life around the next corner, and if you need to run over your grandmother to win the sprint, you'll do it! But then, when is your grandmother ever going to get in the way of your sprint? So it's a rhetorical question, but that mindset still has to be there.
L.
12-03-10 | 08:00 PM
#28
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Let's do a Century
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: North Carolina
Bikes: Cervelo R3 Disc, Pinarello Prince/Campy SR; Cervelo R3/Sram Red; Trek 5900/Duraace, Lynskey GR260 Ultegra
Oh please! I'm ruthless (you have to be if you want to be a successful bike racer), but there are limits! No, I just save that for males that piss me off! I like to think of myself as a gentleman, after all, heh, heh. Even if others consider me to be a ruffian.
That said, I've always thought that if you want to race bikes, you have to have the mindset that you're willing to lay down your life around the next corner, and if you need to run over your grandmother to win the sprint, you'll do it! But then, when is your grandmother ever going to get in the way of your sprint? So it's a rhetorical question, but that mindset still has to be there.
L.
That said, I've always thought that if you want to race bikes, you have to have the mindset that you're willing to lay down your life around the next corner, and if you need to run over your grandmother to win the sprint, you'll do it! But then, when is your grandmother ever going to get in the way of your sprint? So it's a rhetorical question, but that mindset still has to be there.
L.
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