The Random Turn – The Book of Ninja Styles

[creadinger]

On my Sunday evening commute home ~6-6:30 I saw several ninjas on the MVT between 395 and the Crystal City spur.

Can’t really say that they resembled any specific species of ninja, but there were a bunch of the let’s watch the airplanes in the dark ninjas at gravelly point, and I saw a couple of ninja cyclists heading north near the train bridge where it’s really dark! They didn’t have a single light on them, so I’m not sure how they could actually be riding. They must have been the oops, it got dark earlier than I thought and now we’re screwed ninja. Saw a few joggers too, but most of them had the minutest little reflective pin stripes on their shorts/shirts that they can’t be considered ninjas.

So as I come up to an on-coming person. If I look down enough so that my headlamp only illuminates them up to their waist as I pass, I’m not blinding them correct?

[JeffC]

Wow, I’m loving the taxonomy and since I visited the founder of taxonomy’s home in Sweden (that would be Carl Linnaeus) a few years ago, I need to give a name to the Ninja style I noted a few posts ago, namely the female jogger that cannot run in a straight line so I came up with this:

Ninjus Ambulara Rapido Inibrius

[GuyContinental]

Ninjus Cyclus Brokenus Squatus
Seen last night smack in the middle of the WO&D on the WB downhill from Vienna to Hunter Mill- Guy was sitting in the middle of the WB lane changing a tire- he had a small LED headlamp but it was focused on the tire and completely invisible from a distance. I stopped to help (was heading EB) and politely suggested that he scoot off the trail… he declined to do so.

[pfunkallstar]

@GuyContinental 12162 wrote:

Ninjus Cyclus Brokenus Squatus
Seen last night smack in the middle of the WO&D on the WB downhill from Vienna to Hunter Mill- Guy was sitting in the middle of the WB lane changing a tire- he had a small LED headlamp but it was focused on the tire and completely invisible from a distance. I stopped to help (was heading EB) and politely suggested that he scoot off the trail… he declined to do so.

It was a night of blockages I say! I was riding back late last night on the Custis and ran into a pack of three bicyclists walking up the hill by the Ed Center. This is around 8pm or so, needless to say I was surprised. They were apparently in town for the holidays and kinda hammered, they also refused to scoot over. Sad.

[MCL1981]

I had a good one the other night. I come around a sharp bend on the “Bethesda Trolley Trail” to find a pack of high school kids wearing all black using the dark corner as a place to toke it up. They were just standing there oblivious to me needing to get through them. I had the deflector array on full power. I rang the bell to the point of sounding like a train. I actually had to stop. Finally I yelled “HI, I’M REAL, CAN YOU MAKE A HOLE PLEASE!”. They kind of drifted around to the point where I could weave through. I couldn’t figure out why they seemed like deer in headlights until I passed through them and smelled the situation.

[americancyclo]

@MCL1981 12184 wrote:

I couldn’t figure out why they seemed like deer in headlights

Maybe it’s because you have enormously bright headlights on your bike?

[GuyContinental]

Ninjus Slackerus Teenagus

Best dispersed by yelling “COPS!” like a deranged lunatic…

[MCL1981]

@americancyclo 12186 wrote:

Maybe it’s because you have enormously bright headlights on your bike?

touche.

@GuyContinental 12228 wrote:

Ninjus Slackerus Teenagus

Best dispersed by yelling “COPS!” like a deranged lunatic…

BRILLIANT! I’m going to try that next time.

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