Floored and flayed by needlessly leadless

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Randomnerd

Bimbleur
Location
North Yorkshire
What would you do?

Making decent progress down a Sustrans shared cycle path, notice ahead man and wife with two dogs, shouting at an unleashed third, ignoring them from the bushes.

Of course I pass as pooch appears, under my front wheel, at speed, and puts me on the gravelly deck.

Once I've done a slo-mo untangle from the mangled cro-mo (eighties hardtail), I find knee and elbow are dripping claret.

Her Indoors is doing a runner with the canines, and His Nibs is defending The Unleashed with some guff about me being An Idiot.

Adrenaline kicks in and I spit out a few Effs (and Geoffs, naturally).

Giant Carbon in Giant Lycra cycles past without a care in the world. I wish a thousand punctures on him and all his family....

His Nibs is now threatening to rearrange my face to match my joints, while backing off under a volley of Effs.

My poll choices would be:

(1) Stay on the ground in a mound of Diamondback and take selfie before ringing The Rozzers.

(2) Punch the bald wazzock in the face

(3) Sit down on the ground and wonder why some people aren't nice
 

MikeG

Guru
Location
Suffolk
Three, whilst imagining 2.

Selfie? Seriously?
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Shared paths, don't you love em, but the clue is in the name...shared.
I walk my dog on one near me...off the lead invariably. Difference may be I keep a very watchful eye out for folk on foot or on bikes but even then, once in a blue moon someone catches you by surprise.
But then it's a shared path, if I was passing people with dogs....i slow to a safe speed that'd allow me to stop without falling off (hopefully).
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
Making decent progress down a Sustrans shared cycle path, notice ahead man and wife with two dogs, shouting at an unleashed third, ignoring them from the bushes.

Of course I pass as pooch appears, under my front wheel, at speed, and puts me on the gravelly deck.
How come? What might you differently next time?
 
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