Missed connection

[Crickey7]

On a lightly travelled, suburban street near my house this morning, a Prius driver honked at me and then lowered his window to tell me I should have been riding in the parking lane. I’m afraid I failed to be Zen at that particular moment.

[KWL]

@cvcalhoun 157840 wrote:

Did you get the license plate? Can you report him?

I’ll try. I am less than happy with the resolution of my Polaroid SX100 but might be able to make it out using more than one frame.

[Crickey7]

@KWL 157879 wrote:

I’ll try. I am less than happy with the resolution of my Polaroid SX100 but might be able to make it out using more than one frame.

That’s why I always shout out the license plate number, so that the audio can pick it up.

[KWL]

@Crickey7 157880 wrote:

That’s why I always shout out the license plate number, so that the audio can pick it up.

I made note when I first read of you doing that. Unfortunately, at my age my eyes have even poorer resolution than the camera’s. The real problem is the when the car was straight in the lane it was too far away to pick up the plate clearly. When it was closer it was moving across the camera’s field of vision and was more blurry because of that. Why isn’t real life like the movies where I could just say “enhance” and the photo becomes clearer?

[DrP]

Two today:

Me: Riding down the Rosslyn Hill entering the intersection of either Quinn or Scott (whichever one has the sidewalk bumped up from work and a cone on the east side).
You: Riding much faster behind me going down the hill (might have been a an e-bike – the rear hub looked fat enough, but it was a multi-inch wide tire and you went by too fast to be sure) and deciding to pass me in the street cutting in front of me at the curb cut.
Me: Braking hard to not hit you, the curb and the sidewalk obstruction. Jerk.
You: Continue speeding down the hill catching up to other fast folks and, I think, passing them at the IOD.

Me: On the trail just rounding the Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial coming to the straight-away that goes under the Humpback Bridge.
You: Hissing goose standing in the middle of the trail.
Me: Coming to a near stop to not hit the jogger or you and hissing back.
Jogger: Chuckling at my hissing.

It seems early for goslings, and I didn’t see any, so why were you standing there hissing at me? Your friend was calmly eating grass off the trail next to you. There was the goose just after the Memorial Bridge standing off the trail staring at me, like I’d better watch my step. Are you guys in some gang or something? Was I interrupting some goose operation?

[Emm]

@DrP 157896 wrote:

It seems early for goslings, and I didn’t see any, so why were you standing there hissing at me? Your friend was calmly eating grass off the trail next to you. There was the goose just after the Memorial Bridge standing off the trail staring at me, like I’d better watch my step. Are you guys in some gang or something? Was I interrupting some goose operation?

While biking out of Hains Point earlier this week I saw a goose casually strolling down the road in the opposite lane. The goose was playing it safe and taking the whole lane, probably to prevent a car from making an unsafe pass . Maybe your goose was doing the same thing? Maybe they all saw the PAL trailer and took it to heart.

The driver behind the goose at Hains Point it was just cracking up laughing as she slowly inched her car forward behind the goose. It gave me a good laugh to watch

[chris_s]

@DrP 157896 wrote:

It seems early for goslings, and I didn’t see any, so why were you standing there hissing at me?

Because geese are total a-holes.

[Judd]

@chris_s 157910 wrote:

Because geese are total a-holes.

Got hissed at by an a-hole goose at the Merchant Marine Memorial this morning.

[DrP]

@Judd 157914 wrote:

Got hissed at by an a-hole goose at the Merchant Marine Memorial this morning.

I wonder if he was hissing at everyone today or just cyclists. Must have woken up in a bad mood. Or woken up by a bicycle. bell.

[Judd]

@DrP 157915 wrote:

I wonder if he was hissing at everyone today or just cyclists. Must have woken up in a bad mood. Or woken up by a bicycle. bell.

I didn’t check to see if the goose had Maryland plates.

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[DrP]

@Judd 157917 wrote:

I didn’t check to see if the goose had Maryland plates.

No front plates on my goose.

[Tania]

If you’re gonna act like a total asshat on an e-bike, maybe you shouldn’t strava it. Or, put “turbo” in your profile name.

[pptyson]

@Tania 157959 wrote:

If you’re gonna act like a total asshat on an e-bike, maybe you shouldn’t strava it. Or, put “turbo” in your profile name.

F*** that guy. My arch nemesis.

[Drewdane]

To the dude in front of me this morning going too fast to pass, too slow to pull away: please, for the love of All That is Good and Decent, invest in some bib shorts, or at least move up a size. 😮

[anomad]

But but but, they fit fine when he stopped riding for the winter.

@Drewdane 158254 wrote:

To the dude in front of me this morning going too fast to pass, too slow to pull away: please, for the love of All That is Good and Decent, invest in some bib shorts, or at least move up a size. 😮

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