Please Stop Asking If I am Okay

[rcannon100]

:rolleyes: Tonite. Sitting at a coffee house. Helmet off. Bike is locked up 50 feet from me. I am reading about the latest excitement in tech policy. Eating a sandwich. And this pisher comes up to me and asks “Are you alright?? Do you need any help??”

I almost punched him in the nose.

[Vicegrip]

Well, were you OK?

[SolarBikeCar]

i saw a women face down on the road with lots of people around and a traffic jam. I suspected a collision although no emergency vehicles. I asked if a first aid kit would be helpful and someone on the periphery of the crowd said no, I left feeling sad that I couldn’t do something to help.

I few days later I had a flat tire and was on the side of the road repairing the tube when a woman walked up and asked if I needed help. she had passed me in her car and pulled off and walked back because she thought I needed help. Although I could manage just fine I asked her to help watch for traffic so I could focus on the repair and not bad drivers and she could feel useful. A previous time it was a guy who stopped as I was fixing a flat and he dug out a powered air pump.

In these cases maybe it was a bit of busybodyism using the offer to help routine to get a closer look. I prefer to think people are basically good and genuinely care about strangers. Allowing them to help makes the world a happier place by rewarding the Good Samaritan’s attitude even if in most cases help isn’t needed.

[hozn]

@SolarBikeCar 178251 wrote:

I few days later I had a flat tire and was on the side of the road repairing the tube when a woman walked up and asked if I needed help. she had passed me in her car and pulled off and walked back because she thought I needed help. Although I could manage just fine I asked her to help watch for traffic so I could focus on the repair and not bad drivers and she could feel useful. A previous time it was a guy who stopped as I was fixing a flat and he dug out a powered air pump.

Seriously? You didn’t pull your car off the road to fix your flat?

[Sunyata]

@hozn 178258 wrote:

Seriously? You didn’t pull your car off the road to fix your flat?

ARGH! Someone stole my “Elite” button.

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[bentbike33]

@Sunyata 178265 wrote:

ARGH! Someone stole my “Elite” button.

I would suspect Cambridge Analytica took it, but they have gone out of business. Perhaps if Bike Arlington wired $500,000 to Essential Consultants, LLC, the FCC would see clear to letting us have it back.

[rcannon100]

@bentbike33 178266 wrote:

I would suspect Cambridge Analytica took it, but they have gone out of business. Perhaps if Bike Arlington wired $500,000 to Essential Consultants, LLC, the FCC would see clear to letting us have it back.

Sorry. Pursuant to the Restoring Internet Freedom order, the FTC has jurisdiction over the Internet now. Soooooo the one you wanna talk to is…… Dismal??

BTW someone took away ALL of my buttons.

[huskerdont]

@hozn 178258 wrote:

Seriously? You didn’t pull your car off the road to fix your flat?

What happened to the likes? I like the likes. This one gets a like.

[rcannon100]

[DismalScientist]

@rcannon100 178267 wrote:

Sorry. Pursuant to the Restoring Internet Freedom order, the FTC has jurisdiction over the Internet now. Soooooo the one you wanna talk to is…… Dismal??

BTW someone took away ALL of my buttons.

Please do not interrupt my stupor

[Starduster]

Um, yeah… Where *did* the [like] buttons disappear to???

Expiring minds want to know.

[streetsmarts]

also, I use the TapaTalk app to view the forum on my phone. I keep getting errors. Help? (viewing on the web now).

Must stay connected to bikey folks and all their thoughts….

[LhasaCM]

@streetsmarts 178284 wrote:

also, I use the TapaTalk app to view the forum on my phone. I keep getting errors. Help? (viewing on the web now).

Must stay connected to bikey folks and all their thoughts….

Looks like they upgraded the forum software…and things changed/broke in the process.

[peterw_diy]

@LhasaCM 178286 wrote:

Looks like they upgraded the forum software…and things changed/broke in the process.

I concur. The “What’s New” behavior has changed, too, and I liked the old behavior better.

On a positive note, it looks like https almost works – you can access the forum with https URLs but the pages look busted, as if the supporting n media references use http:

[mstone]

@peterw_diy 178287 wrote:

I concur. The “What’s New” behavior has changed, too, and I liked the old behavior better.

I greatly prefer the new one where if you hit “what’s new” and then have to deal with real life, it hasn’t forgotten what’s new when you come back.

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