I was standing in a parking space at a corner in this ritzy little shopping neighborhood speaking on the phone with my grandmother and some hoity toity guy parked behind me lay on his horn. I ignored thinking it was something traffic related when the guy pulls out beside me, honks again, flips me off and says "How about you move you ****in' prick?" to which both he and his girlfriend break out in raucous laughter.

Until I caught up with him 2 blocks later. At which point, he rolled up his windows and tried to act as if he'd never seen me.

Naw, almost everyday there is a close call...and I am pretty safe rider.

that happened to me twice on Saturday within a minute of each other, on the same stretch of empty road, riding in a straight line in the right lane at like 2 in the morning.

What are the odds?

something tells me they know your rap persona...

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its not that youre a ***, its that they dont understand russians.

haha that'd be awesome. i mean, you don't have any gear yourself, so might as well bring a bike! we can do a halloween ride after your show!

we should do a halloween ride even if i can't bring my bike... would there be one that i can borrow? i don't ride like too much of a maniac...

though, if i can, i am absolutely going to have my bike with us.

you're about my height right? 5'10" or so? i definitely have a bike you could borrow.

yeah, around there, maybe an inch or two taller. i'm sure i can make do! perhaps we can bike to vp2 and get some of those delicious fried chicken jams.. or anywhere else that is delicious that i do not know about

Frat dude called me an "emo bike ***" the other night...promptly apologized when my best friend happend to have overheard and popped out from a corner and scared the guys pants filthy!

A PT Cruiser (in Philly's Old City of course) with five girls all yelled at the same time to a friend and I: "Get a car, losers!!" It was amazing. I always find that funny, because if you're living in Philadelphia, the losers are the people with cars. I should have yelled "Get a bike, losers!!" I tried to think of the most childish insult that would apply to them (25 year olds), so I yelled, "I'm in shape and you're ugly!! Get on the bike!!" And my friend reached into the car while it was moving next to us and pulled the girl's hair.

...yeah.

Another funny story... I was in Boston this weekend and I was riding down Beacon (next to the Public Garden) and a cabbie pulls up next to me (with passengers in the back) and yells, "Get out of the middle of road, you're going to get yourself killed!" and literally 2 seconds later a car full of dudes pulls up on the other side of me and a guy in the backseat pokes his head out the window and says, "Where you goin'?" I simply pointed forward and responded with, "that way." He said something that I couldn't understand and then with a clear voice called me a "peckerhead." I hadn't heard that insult in so long. Anyway. I guess it really wasn't that funny.

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holy shlt.

Since I have lived here in Texas all my life, I've lost count of the "***" remark. Just the other day I got on the way to work I got "P*nche Gringo" for taking the left turn lane. Couple of blocks down the road I got "P*nche Hoto(spanish slang for ***)" from the same truck. Ironically, at the last light to work, I got "You lucky mofo" from a guy in a volvo with roof racks.

I'm not superstitious on the road, but I'm sure am learning the espanol. I'm just wondering if I should start a new category for when things are said in spanish?

riding home from class the other night i made a right onto a street as a van was driving down the street. this pissed off the van and at the next light the driver, in a very heavy african accent, started talking ****:

"'ey azzhol"
i looked at him and said "excuse me?"
"i say 'ey azzhole"
"i'm sorry, i don't understand you."
"I SAY 'EY AZZHOL! YOU AZZHOL!"
"is that english?"
"GET OUT STREET AZZHOL!"
"you're looking for grant st?"
"**** YOU! **** YOU AZZHOL! **** YOU BIKE!"
"look, you don't need to get so mad just cause i don't speak your language. i gotta go"

and i could hear him losin his **** as i rode away.

Hah....

nice.

I piss on the curb before every ride...can be a problem in mid-town sometimes.