Please Stop Asking If I am Okay

[rcannon100]

[rant mode on]

Alright, this beats a subject that we have visited before. But it has become REALLY ANNOYING.

I go out for a 30 mile ride. I push doing intervals. I take a break beside the trail.

And within seconds five people have stopped to ask if I am alright and if I need help.

STOP IT!

Okay, let me paint just a little more of the picture. No flat tire. No chain break. No damage to my bike. No accident. No blood. No torn clothes. There is not one hint, not one bit of evidence, nothing to suggest that I am having any difficulty whatsoever.

Yet if I stop beside the trail, obviously there must be something wrong with what I am doing. There has to be. If I sit on a bench on the WOD, or if I take a break in the shade, or if I stop to take off layers….. “Are you alright? Do you need help?” Something I am doing must be wrong after all I get bombarded with inquiries.

Oh yeah, can I also mention that this did not happen 2 years ago when I was not quite a gray beard. But now that I am a gray beard, if I dare to stop beside the trail – I must obviously be having an F’ing heart attack or something. I must be enfeebled. I must be in desperate need of assistance.

Really. Every single time. Multiple idiots trying to earn their good samaritan badges.

It patronizing. Its annoying and an intrusion. Its an aspersion that there must be something wrong with what I am doing.

The young guy doesnt get asked. The person who is just walking without a bicycle doesnt get asked. The person walking a dog doesnt get asked. And so on.

Please stop. Please earn your good samaritan badge somewhere else. Take two seconds before you bother someone and LOOK to see if there is anything about them that suggests that they need help.

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[huskerdont]

@rcannon100 179626 wrote:

Ah. I think I see your problem. You actually needed help. That’s not how this works. If you actually need help, and I offer assistance, then I actually have to do something or know something. I actually have to be useful and there is a substantial chance I am not.

No. This only works when there is absolutely no appearance of need or distress. You know, like a cyclist casually sitting on a bench drinking water. Then I can offer assistance without any fear or concern that I might actually have to do something. My liberal guilt is alleviated; I have earned my Good Samaritan merit badge. But absent the need to be useful or to know whether its righty-tightly or lefty-loosey .

I’m pretty liberal, don’t feel too guilty about being relatively well off, and will happily give someone a tube or a ride who needs it or assist with a minor mech if I can. What goes around comes around.

This winter I wore a tire through* such the tube poked out and popped and was walking the bike home when a guy offered me a ride. He had a bike rack on the car so I figured, what could possiblie go wrong? I mean, he was a cyclist.

*Too big for the dollar bill trick.

[rcannon100]

Yer still playing on the wrong stage. People who need actual assistance are on Stage 3. This stage is reserved for people sitting on a bench checking their email, watching cat videos.

[video=youtube_share;T8F8WR2rzPA]https://youtu.be/T8F8WR2rzPA[/video]

[rcannon100]

Then again maybe once in a while you should be a Good Samaritan

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CYCLIST FINDS INJURED DOG AND CARRIES HIM ON HIS BIKE INTO TOWN

[ShawnoftheDread]

I’m just surprised that Bob still doesn’t know how distressed he looks while riding his bike or taking breaks from riding his bike.

Someone get this man a mirror or a selfie stick or something.

[rcannon100]

@ShawnoftheDread 179648 wrote:

I’m just surprised that Bob still doesn’t know how distressed he looks while riding his bike or taking breaks from riding his bike.

Someone get this man a mirror or a selfie stick or something.

Dont know what you’re getting on about.
‘Tis but a scratch.

I’ve had worse.

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