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  • January 11, 2013 at 9:34 pm #959755
    acc
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    My head just exploded.

    Hell, if anyone even offers to put air in my tires I’m ecstatic.

    Twice, men have carried my bike down escalators at Metro stations so I won’t miss a train. They offered, I did not ask.

    Have been slammed in the a** enough times by doors to be very appreciative of anyone who will hold a door so I can push my bike into a building where I can keep an eye on it.

    And all three times I’ve flatted out on the road, no one magically appeared to help. Learned to do it in the field on my own while my girlfriends kept calling me to see if I’d fixed it yet.

    January 11, 2013 at 9:41 pm #959756
    krazygl00
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    @acc 40385 wrote:

    My head just exploded.

    Hell, if anyone even offers to put air in my tires I’m ecstatic.

    Twice, men have carried my bike down escalators at Metro stations so I won’t miss a train. They offered, I did not ask.

    Have been slammed in the a** enough times by doors to be very appreciative of anyone who will hold a door so I can push my bike into a building where I can keep an eye on it.

    And all three times I’ve flatted out on the road, no one magically appeared to help. Learned to do it in the field on my own while my girlfriends kept calling me to see if I’d fixed it yet.

    I guess it is just my nature – I don’t like being fussed over too much, it makes me uncomfortable. I’ve taken my bike through tricky doors a million times so I’ve learned the best way to do it. Most of the time when someone says “Hey, let me hold that for you!” they’re really saying “Hey, let me get in your way!”

    Edit: P.S. I’m talking about myself and my own difficulty in accepting help in particular. I am more than ready to help another person who needs help.

    January 11, 2013 at 9:46 pm #959757
    jrenaut
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    Totally get what you mean about not being fussed over. And I was on the giving end of one of those door holds this morning. A man was making a delivery at my daughter’s daycare as I dropped her off, and i tried to hold the door for him. Holding the door for someone with a hand truck when you’re escorting a two year old is just not going to be successful. I tried, though.

    I’ve always thought English was a wonderful yet deeply flawed language. When I started learning Spanish in high school (In a MD public school), I was amazed at how simple it was (except the dang past tense), and then you read great Spanish literature and you see how beautiful it is, too. English gets the beauty part, but we botched it on simple. Spanish slang is also glorious, though English does well there, too.

    January 11, 2013 at 10:02 pm #959759
    KelOnWheels
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    @krazygl00 40382 wrote:

    Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English – Number 2, “Arigata-meiwaku” – The perfect expression to describe what happens when someone holds a door open for me with my bike.

    Oh, you mean Helpy McHelperson :D

    January 11, 2013 at 10:06 pm #959760
    krazygl00
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    @KelOnWheels 40389 wrote:

    Oh, you mean Helpy McHelperson :D

    Closely related :) And Helpy certainly can dish out the arigata meiwaku. I guess I’m seeing a trend within my own twisted inner-workings.

    January 12, 2013 at 2:53 am #959783
    PotomacCyclist
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    Maybe we can use the phrase “a courtesy fail”?

    January 12, 2013 at 3:59 am #959786
    rcannon100
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    Twice, men have carried my bike down escalators at Metro stations so I won’t miss a train. They offered, I did not ask.

    According to WMATA Guidelines

    Use the elevator at all times. Do not take bicycles on escalators.

    Might be better to take the elevator.

    January 12, 2013 at 2:27 pm #959792
    mstone
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    @rcannon100 40417 wrote:

    According to WMATA Guidelines

    Might be better to take the elevator.

    Ha ha, you believe there’s an elevator. :)

    January 12, 2013 at 3:14 pm #959793
    rcannon100
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    @mstone 40423 wrote:

    Ha ha, you believe there’s an elevator. :)

    ADA. There is. Ask the station manager.

    January 12, 2013 at 5:06 pm #959801
    mstone
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    @rcannon100 40425 wrote:

    ADA. There is. Ask the station manager.

    You don’t take metro much, do you? :D

    January 12, 2013 at 5:57 pm #959802
    eminva
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    @mstone 40433 wrote:

    You don’t take metro much, do you? :D

    Yeah, I know where acc lives, and the elevator at one of the nearby Metro stations has been out of commission a lot over the last couple of years due to construction of a new set of stairs.

    Liz

    January 12, 2013 at 6:21 pm #959805
    mstone
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    @eminva 40434 wrote:

    Yeah, I know where acc lives, and the elevator at one of the nearby Metro stations has been out of commission a lot over the last couple of years due to construction of a new set of stairs.

    It always boggles my mind that they can spend so long on a staircase. But then I remember where I am.

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