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Old 06-11-12 | 11:06 PM
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reminds me of last night. going through a NEIGHBORHOOD road and I notice a car behind me, so I slow down and get behind my friend so he has a ton of room to pass. dude still lays on his horn as he passes us. I was like god dammit, even when I go out of my way to be helpful people are ********. he even had his wife and a kid in the car. I know you're probably talking about something more serious but it annoyed the living **** out of me.
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Old 06-11-12 | 11:08 PM
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Old 06-11-12 | 11:17 PM
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reminds me of last night. going through a NEIGHBORHOOD road and I notice a car behind me, so I slow down and get behind my friend so he has a ton of room to pass. dude still lays on his horn as he passes us. I was like god dammit, even when I go out of my way to be helpful people are ********. he even had his wife and a kid in the car. I know you're probably talking about something more serious but it annoyed the living **** out of me.

just imagine being that person, or his family.... SUCKS TO BE THEM
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Old 06-11-12 | 11:17 PM
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Nah not on DF, I don't associate myself with them enough to care what they say, I was talking about another thing.

They are a little mean though!
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Old 06-11-12 | 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by calv
Nah not on DF, I don't associate myself with them enough to care what they say, I was talking about another thing.

They are a little mean though!
We tend to be ******** to new people here too though.
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Old 06-11-12 | 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by jimmytango
We tend to be ******** to new people here too though.
Hey man, its different!!.... somehow...
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Old 06-11-12 | 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jimmytango
We tend to be ******** to new people here too though.
I only really see BFSSFG give people a hard time when they ask/make mega redundant questions/threads, lol.
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Old 06-11-12 | 11:56 PM
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I had an adventure trying to find a place to cut down the crown race on my fork for a new headset. My shop is small and a crown race cutting not a common procedure :/ Of course I'm not going to pay some dude to do it, my two mechanic friends at the local REI were out, and in the end I had to ride several miles to my co-op on my shop's electric assist bike. never went 20mph so damn easily
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Old 06-12-12 | 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by jdgesus
just imagine being that person, or his family.... SUCKS TO BE THEM
was a bearded dude in a seattle, had a small asian boy in the backseat
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Old 06-12-12 | 12:23 AM
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Originally Posted by hamfoh
reminds me of last night. going through a NEIGHBORHOOD road and I notice a car behind me, so I slow down and get behind my friend so he has a ton of room to pass. dude still lays on his horn as he passes us. I was like god dammit, even when I go out of my way to be helpful people are ********. he even had his wife and a kid in the car. I know you're probably talking about something more serious but it annoyed the living **** out of me.
A similar thing happened to me... I'm trying to avoid a parked car and some impatient **** behind me couldn't wait two seconds for enough room to pass, laying on the horn. I later found a new bike route to a local lake (so I don't have to drive there) but the rudeness of those people just ruined the entire ride for me.
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Old 06-12-12 | 12:40 AM
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People really just don't understand that bicycles are a valid form of awesomeness.
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Old 06-12-12 | 12:49 AM
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Makes me want to stop all of the people who drive like ass holes, put them on a bike, and tell them to keep up with me on the road. I think they'll appreciate cyclists a tiny bit more.
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Old 06-12-12 | 01:48 AM
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my friend who was with me was annoyed too. he's an athletic guy and he said he sprinted ahead and gave him a good 10 second stare down of angry black man face (I saw him in front of the SUV but didn't know what he was doing) before move out of his way at the stop sign. we rode behind the dude a for a little bit (we were going to same way) and then he turned onto a side street, part of me wondered if he was really going that way.

**** with enough cyclists and eventually you'll find one with as short of a temper as yours and end up with a u lock through your window
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Old 06-12-12 | 02:01 AM
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**** with enough cyclists and eventually you'll find one with as short of a temper as yours and end up with a u lock through your window
Makes me want to start carrying something bigger/ heavier that would be able to actually go through a window. No one knows how to drive on campus.
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Old 06-12-12 | 05:51 AM
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back when i had my ducati i used to ride with a bunch of harley dudes, my one friend carried a small cutdown balpeen hammer in his pocket for when "cagers" would get out of control, i never seen him use it but one day he just didnt have it anymore, i didnt ask where it went.

ive had some people honk at me and to be honest i look to see if it means im gonna get hit, and if its just someone that doesnt know how to move over 36 inches to get around me i carry on my merry way of fitness and freedom
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Old 06-12-12 | 06:58 AM
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was a bearded dude in a seattle, had a small asian boy in the backseat
driving a blue vw bus?
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Old 06-12-12 | 07:39 AM
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Yesterday I attended the second day of my Ruby programming class, and it was awful. I'm not stupid, but the guy was clearly not very good at teaching programming and just went way too fast through the material. That was really ****ing demoralizing. But then I decided hey, I know a bunch of people that program, including a dude that does Ruby and is always after me to come to these "Code and Coffee" meetups at a downtown coffee shop on Tuesday mornings. (At 7am. Ugh.)

So this morning I get up at 5:30 am, and pack up my giant MW bag with all my work clothes, makeup, etc.; my bike tools and a u-lock; my laptop, charger, and a 650-page Ruby book. It was ****ing heavy as hell. 45 minutes later I pull up to the coffee shop, get the u-lock out of my bag, and grab my keys to unlock it...

And I had the wrong ****ing lock (we have several laying around our basement). I didn't have the key to the one I brought. The hilarious/stupid/frustrating part is I've done this before (jimmytango has witnessed it) so I even color coded all the locks and keys with colored electrical tape. But that doesn't do much good if you don't actually check to see you've grabbed the right color.

So I lugged a ridiculously heavy backpack all the way downtown and got up an hour early, for nothing. And now I have to try to catch myself up on this Ruby class without any help. Sigh.
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Old 06-12-12 | 07:59 AM
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Yesterday I attended the second day of my Ruby programming class, and it was awful. I'm not stupid, but the guy was clearly not very good at teaching programming and just went way too fast through the material. That was really ****ing demoralizing. But then I decided hey, I know a bunch of people that program, including a dude that does Ruby and is always after me to come to these "Code and Coffee" meetups at a downtown coffee shop on Tuesday mornings. (At 7am. Ugh.)

So this morning I get up at 5:30 am, and pack up my giant MW bag with all my work clothes, makeup, etc.; my bike tools and a u-lock; my laptop, charger, and a 650-page Ruby book. It was ****ing heavy as hell. 45 minutes later I pull up to the coffee shop, get the u-lock out of my bag, and grab my keys to unlock it...

And I had the wrong ****ing lock (we have several laying around our basement). I didn't have the key to the one I brought. The hilarious/stupid/frustrating part is I've done this before (jimmytango has witnessed it) so I even color coded all the locks and keys with colored electrical tape. But that doesn't do much good if you don't actually check to see you've grabbed the right color.

So I lugged a ridiculously heavy backpack all the way downtown and got up an hour early, for nothing. And now I have to try to catch myself up on this Ruby class without any help. Sigh.
I say you get a big dangly hipster keychain and put all your lock keys on it...That way you always have the right key.
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Old 06-12-12 | 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by misskaz
Yesterday I attended the second day of my Ruby programming class, and it was awful. I'm not stupid, but the guy was clearly not very good at teaching programming and just went way too fast through the material. That was really ****ing demoralizing. But then I decided hey, I know a bunch of people that program, including a dude that does Ruby and is always after me to come to these "Code and Coffee" meetups at a downtown coffee shop on Tuesday mornings. (At 7am. Ugh.)

So this morning I get up at 5:30 am, and pack up my giant MW bag with all my work clothes, makeup, etc.; my bike tools and a u-lock; my laptop, charger, and a 650-page Ruby book. It was ****ing heavy as hell. 45 minutes later I pull up to the coffee shop, get the u-lock out of my bag, and grab my keys to unlock it...

And I had the wrong ****ing lock (we have several laying around our basement). I didn't have the key to the one I brought. The hilarious/stupid/frustrating part is I've done this before (jimmytango has witnessed it) so I even color coded all the locks and keys with colored electrical tape. But that doesn't do much good if you don't actually check to see you've grabbed the right color.

So I lugged a ridiculously heavy backpack all the way downtown and got up an hour early, for nothing. And now I have to try to catch myself up on this Ruby class without any help. Sigh.
Oh man, that sucks. Seriously. Sorry. At least this isn't "missing" house keys in the bottom of your bag in the rain in the middle of the night when you're drunk and neither of us can wake MisterKaz up. Today will get better from here.

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I say you get a big dangly hipster keychain and put all your lock keys on it...That way you always have the right key.
Girl has a lot of keys, homie.

Today, I'm on my way to Indiana to go to the funeral of the only person in my family besides my sister who I was ever close to. My sister died 4.5 years ago, and my aunt killed herself Friday. There is no longer a single person in my family that I care to associate with. Today isn't going to be a good day.
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Old 06-12-12 | 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by hamfoh
was a bearded dude in a seattle, had a small asian boy in the backseat
crazy man, i VERY RARELY have people honk at me in seattle, especially on residential streets. weird....
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Old 06-12-12 | 10:24 AM
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crazy man, i VERY RARELY have people honk at me in seattle, especially on residential streets. weird....
you didn't get the joke :/

i always have middle aged men in miatas with their tops down yelling at me in Seattle
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Old 06-12-12 | 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by yummygooey
i always have middle aged men in miatas with their tops down yelling at me in Seattle
old dude's in miatas love small asian boys




BTW, you know what car jdg used to have?
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Old 06-12-12 | 10:39 AM
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lol! plus the pedo-stache. yikes.
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Old 06-12-12 | 11:26 AM
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plus i had the threes company theme song on LOOP blaring with the top down thru my 3000watt trunk mounted stereo of doom
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Old 06-12-12 | 11:41 AM
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