What would you yell when a car or truck cuts in your lane?

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  • August 16, 2011 at 4:41 pm #929274
    Greenbelt
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    Scream like a teenager in a horror movie maybe most effective?

    When I’m startled by a car I usually just end up with a shouted “Hey!”

    August 16, 2011 at 4:49 pm #929275
    Dirt
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    “I LOVE YOU!” is my current fave. If I catch up to the guy/gal (which I often do), I continue professing my undying love for them. I tell them how awesome they are in such terms that they become seriously fearful that I am a psychopath. If given the opportunity, I begin singing to them…. The Captain and Teniel’s “Muscrat Love” is my current favorite song to sing to the object of my affection. There’s a semi traumatized dude in a Mercedes convertible out there that still has nightmares about this lunatic on a pink bike that chased him around for 20 minutes telling him how awesome he was. Our parting exchange (the 4th in a series of interactions) consisted of me standing next to him at the light repeating the word “AWESOME” with many different vocal intonations over and over again for the entire 20 seconds that we were next to each other. I think he contemplated running the light. He certainly sped away with quite all haste.

    Honestly, there is nothing I can say in a hostile tone, or in a tone of reason that will impact an aggressive or oblivious driver in any way. It is much better to instill fear in their hearts the way they do to the cyclists they encounter.

    Bottom line: Hostility does nothing. No-one wants to hear our well reasoned arguments. Fear and insanity gets results for me.

    Love, (not the fear and insanity type… well not the fear type.) ;)

    Pete

    August 16, 2011 at 5:26 pm #929276
    OneEighth
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    Don’t mess with Dirt.
    He stares at goats…

    August 16, 2011 at 6:36 pm #929280
    RESTONTODC
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    The guy might misunderstand you when you yell out “I LOVE YOU”, especially from a pink bike.

    August 16, 2011 at 6:56 pm #929281
    Dirt
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    @RESTONTODC 7149 wrote:

    The guy might misunderstand you when you yell out “I LOVE YOU”, especially from a pink bike.

    I’m relatively sure that he had a clear understanding of me throughout the series of exchanges. That was evident by the “GET THIS GUY AWAY FROM ME” look on his face. :D Very, very few people who have ever met me take me seriously. :D I like it that way.

    August 16, 2011 at 7:24 pm #929283
    Tim Kelley
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    @Dirt 7150 wrote:

    Very, very few people who have ever met me take me seriously. :D I like it that way.

    The imaginary friends who pay for your dinner at restaurants only help to further that opinion…

    August 16, 2011 at 7:25 pm #929284
    Tim Kelley
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    Oh yeah, I use this in traffic to let motorists know I’m there.

    August 16, 2011 at 9:21 pm #929287
    Dirt
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    @Tim Kelley 7153 wrote:

    Oh yeah, I use this in traffic to let motorists know I’m there.

    It works too. I just about produced alternative chamois cream when you snuck up behind me and let loose with it. (Sincere apologies for the imagery.)

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