Missed connection

[bentbike33]

ME: Heading east this morning behind a slower cyclist in Bannecker Park waiting for you, heading west, to go by before passing.

YOU: Making a sweeping, high-speed turn onto the bridge over Four Mile Run.

ME: Hmm?

YOU: Crashing on the wooden bridge still moist from nightime rain.

ME: Stopping and shouting to you from just out of sight, “You all right?”

YOU: “Yeah.”

ME: “Slow down, those things are slippery.”

[Vicegrip]

Shreve road and W&OD is the intersection that just keeps on giving for me. My evening commute last night. Coming East on the W&OD come around the intersection and I slow to an almost dead stop as a car from RT7 slows and stops but stops a bit back from where most cars do. I stand and roll into the intersection just as she changes her mind, and I use the term “mind” loosely, and rolls through the intersection. I grabbed brakes again and stopped 3 inches from the pass side door. She continued on with 0.00 notice of what just happened. And why you might ask? Well I can say I was quite close enough to see why but I bet you can venture a guess. Yup, She was looking at her F#C!#$&G PHONE!

[Steve O]

@Vicegrip 141861 wrote:

Shreve road and W&OD is the intersection that just keeps on giving for me. My evening commute last night. Coming East on the W&OD come around the intersection and I slow to an almost dead stop as a car from RT7 slows and stops but stops a bit back from where most cars do. I stand and roll into the intersection just as she changes her mind, and I use the term “mind” loosely, and rolls through the intersection. I grabbed brakes again and stopped 3 inches from the pass side door. She continued on with 0.00 notice of what just happened. And why you might ask? Well I can say I was quite close enough to see why but I bet you can venture a guess. Yup, She was looking at her F#C!#$&G PHONE!

I sometimes daydream about having a tennis ball or some other disposable object that I could throw at a car that would make a noise when it hits, but not actually damage the car, for situations just like this.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Not actually damage the car? Why?

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[Judd]

@ShawnoftheDread 141864 wrote:

Not actually damage the car? Why?

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Because no damage equals no crime.

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[ShawnoftheDread]

@Judd 141865 wrote:

Because no damage equals no crime.

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Not actually true.

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[scoot]

Self-defense

[Judd]

@ShawnoftheDread 141867 wrote:

Not actually true.

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What’s the crime? Prove the tennis ball didn’t accidentally slip out of Steve O’s pannier at a high velocity.

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[ShawnoftheDread]

@Judd 141875 wrote:

What’s the crime? Prove the tennis ball didn’t accidentally slip out of Steve O’s pannier at a high velocity.

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Ah, you’re saying there would be no proof of a crime, which may be true. But it’s illegal to chuck something at a moving vehicle.

[consularrider]

@ShawnoftheDread 141879 wrote:

Ah, you’re saying there would be no proof of a crime, which may be true. But it’s illegal to chuck something at a moving vehicle.

Including a bicycle and a body?

[dasgeh]

I believe someone in the UK was throwing out magnets that said something to the effect of “you’re a shitty driver”. He’d chuck them at cars in this situation, they’d stick, and the driver would know later what happened (well, kinda)

[mstone]

@consularrider 141880 wrote:

Including a bicycle and a body?

Don’t give them ideas for new citations

[Steve O]

@ShawnoftheDread 141864 wrote:

Not actually damage the car? Why?

Well, truthfully, in my daydreams I throw things like eggs.

[Vicegrip]

@Steve O 141895 wrote:

Well, truthfully, in my daydreams I throw things like eggs.

I keep going back to visions of a Paintball pistol. Stupid car action? (too many to list individually)….Pap Pap Pap. Standing in the middle of the trail yakking away on yer phone? Pap-pap. 4 wide during a busy time in a busy area? Pap-pap Pap-pap. 6 inch dog and a 20 foot leash and owner paying no attention to the little rat as it tries to clothesline itself on my front wheel? Pap pap. Crazy Ivan? Stop, turn and Pap-pap right in the back side. Daytime flashing flame thrower light while on a MUP? One round right into the light. 4 foot wide electric car on the W&OD? Papapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapap…..Reload. Papapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapap.

Yea I wish…….:rolleyes:

[Tania]

Didn’t call your pass? Pap-pap!

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