+1!

messengers deliver goods all day for people that are too lazy and rich to do it themselves. advertising agencies, law firms, etc. what's grass roots about that? when I was a kid we road our bikes year round in chicago weather because we loved bikes, not because we were getting 100$ a day. I know alot of messengers that are jaded from being on there bikes all day and the magic is gone, and the buzz is deep rooted. this is not a blanket statement that applies to all, just a large percentage.

what about guys like me who work 40hrs a week as a cashier taking jerkoff's food orders so they can afford rent and ramen?
And we scrap up the rest for bike parts that we scavenge secondhand.
man up!

I love my ****ing job. This thread gave me a headache.

This pissing contest **** is getting old.

We love life, and get headaches from *****ty threads, but we still keep a'postin'! Man up!

+1 Red Lobster line cook with a communications degree counting days until grad school so I can hopefully better myself...

I'd really prefer it if you "guys" used the term, "huMAN up!!". All this gender inequality is totally harshing my mellow.

(you won't like me when my mellow's harshed.. hulk SKID..)

38 degrees? Sounds nice. Mornings have given us a lot of temps in the 40s here recently. I commute when it's in the 20s with a stiff wind and the rain is far from still being rain. I've also made a beer run or two in the single digits. Not that I'm a hard*** or anything. Maybe I just have questionable judgement and really like riding.

speaking for myself, the little dab of respect i feel entitled to being a messenger applies to most people on a bicycle. cars barreling down on you, peds pretending you dont exist, city services taking care of the stupid potholes and currently torn up roads plaugeing my city...

but i do wish people would recognize the next time they jump in front of me to cross a street, cut me off in a car, all these stupid potentialy time-costing accidents, i'm trying to make money. these streets are my office. i dont take ****s in their cubicles.

And if you did, our office linebacker would **** you up.

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"Get ready for the pain train...Whoo! Whoo!"

you guys are a buncha whiners! man up indeed. sheesh! act like ya got a pair.

Feeling men up?

most sensible thing in this thread.

i commute through new england winters, even when my boss offered to pick me up on his way in.

questionable judgement and the very real threat of going insane if i don't have my saddle between my cheeks for a certain amount of time each day.

I guess I'm not eligible to man up. I love my job. In fact, I own the company I work for and pay myself 170K/year. I've been hit by a car once in my life. I ride my bike when I feel like it. Sometimes it is 38 degrees and raining.

I make no money. I'm in tremendous debt and it's growing. I get gross body fluids on me from sick people. When someone says "v. do a hemoccult" i cringe. Draining abscesses is disgusting!

But ... I've seen some pretty cool 4-astericks. How many people can say they helped sew pericardium during a thoracic surgery? And I can staple/suture skin like a mother-astericker.

And I still got on my bike enough this winter to have my brooks eat through another pair of pants.

So I don't know if I'm qualified to say it, since my life doesn't really suck in general just ocassionally ... whatever ... Woman up.

sounds like you're fixin' to be a doctor! don't worry, you'll be outta debt lickety-split! all the doctor's i know are RICH!! (and there's not a dang thing wrong with bein' rich--it's nice actually)

ooh, can i play? i want to brag/whine about my job, too...

anybody know what E/BD stands for? how about federal setting IV? I work at a special ed high school for kids with emotional/behavioral disorder, most of whom are about one slip-up away from some serious jail time, and none of whom seem to care. i often get cussed out before nine a.m., have been threatened, swung at, and often have to pull kids off of kids. the teachers are incompetent, and most of the staff are, and i routinely have to do damage control when they foul everything up and set up the kids to freak out.

and i ride the short bus to and from work for money, so i don't get to ride that much.

and i'm in school three nights a week. to be a teacher. because i hate myself.

memememememememememememememe!! it's all about me! so enough about YOU, let's talk about ME!! mememememememememememememememememememe!! oh, speaking of ME!!!! i love mirrors!!! they show ME!!!!!

i love ME!!!!!

man can totally be a gender neutral term! check your etymological dictionary, dawg

+1....****ing hate it...i'm just hanging on till i can get a messenger job and eventually i want to go to u.b.i. and go more of the bike mechanic direction.

i figure i'm already broke, so why not try to involve things i love in the whole rent/ramen/scraping for secondhand bike parts mess?

I'm not looking for props, kudos or anything of the sort, but I find it funny that I have actually delivered a package with someone else's blood on it. Second day on the job too. And then I also make runs to the hospital that are samples of blood, piss and swabs that went who knows where.

mmmm blood.

yeah but it is a sign of our patriarchial society/history.
just sayin. dont care too much beyond that.
I shouldnt ***** too much because my rent is cheap and I get to build up and fix lots of beater bikes at nights when I volunteer and I own like 6 bikes (though none are worth more than 300)

i guess crashing twice a day and delivering bloody packages makes you "a man". perhaps if you spent additional time on your cycling techniques you might not strained that ankle again, b*tch.

ready ive been plumbing for about 4 years for some crazy ass reason i kinda like it.Its cool here i mostly do buildings in boston traffic sucks but there pretty laid back but when i lived in new hampshire god dam that ****ing sucked i was on 24 hour call and all day i would have to go to **** flooded basements and unclogg toilets id go to multi million dollar houses where they would freak out if i parked to close to there lawn they would make me take off my shoes in the basement then they would have a heart attack if i set a wrench on there floor id go to freak asses house who would complain that there faucet was a 16th of an inch off center id have to go through stacks of books to find crazy ass gold faucets and lime green toilets at two in the morning id have to get outta bed to go to some ones house beacuse they had no heat i mean i under stand your pissed beacuse your cold but you dont have to ****ing stand over my shoulder asking me every ten minutes when its gonna be fixed. In the winter id have to sit under houses with propane heaters un thawing pipes it would be like 100 deg under ther id step out to get something it would be 2 deg out side when spring came id have to dig my way under ****ty cottages to fix broken pipes,but the ****ing worst is when id have to go to nasty ass ****ing trailers with cat litter on the ****ing bathroom floor and the ****ing smell of piss in the bathroom is so bad i wanna gag before you call the plumber people clean your ****ing bathroom.
man up
sorry kinda pissed i was working at a crazy ladys house all day and i would of much rather been riding my bike