He touched my car

[marzjennings]

[QUOTE 2125538, member: 9609"]Are you a violent person in general, or do you only get these feelings when inside your shell car?

Can you shoot someone in texas for touching your car?[/quote]
Confused by your question?
My words for touching my car may include an 'excuse me' and a 'would you mind, generally not violent terms. Just 'cos I don't like something does not mean I have to leap to abusive language.

And if someone jumps into my car uninvited (and unknown) I'm assuming they have done so for bad reasons and not good ones and therefore I am prepared to act accordingly (violently if required). After 2 attempted car jackings I don't take this sort of thing lightly.

What would you do if someone jumped into your car? Buy 'em a beer?

 

[lukesdad]

Yes probably best to keep with the smilies, no need to commit to an idea that way.

well I did at least answer the OP s question, before you lot decided to divert it with the usual bollox, driven by your hatred of cars... what the feck here's another smilie for you

 

[Dan B]

But all of us have a line in the sand past which personal space encroachment will not be tolerated. I guess mine starts at the shell of my car.

Do you *always* get upset when someone gets within about five feet of you, or is that just when you're in the car? It's a good job we don't all feel that way all the time, or the average city - and the average office - would be basically unworkable.

 

[Dan B]

I guess we should be grateful you don't drive a bus, though

 

[lukesdad]

Before? You were well late

I would have been here earlier but had something far more important to attend to, you know how 5 year olds and their noughts and crosses are.... ah perhaps not probably a bit advanced for you.

 

[Hip Priest]

I got into the passenger side of my car when my wife was in the driving seat. Trouble was it wasn't my car or my wife. The lady was very surprised but quite understanding. Glad she didn't punch me!

That happened to me once. A middle-aged women climbed into my passenger seat thinking it was her husband's car. It was quite funny for all concerned, until I unloaded my AK47 into her face. Freedom!

 

[TheLondonCyclist]

I do it to busses now and then, but in the blind spot of the driver.
Wouldn't do it to any other vehicle.

I find clips shoes dangerous due to being stuck to the bike if you're gonna crash or something... you can't jump off; not that I would abandon my bike lol

 

[slowmotion]

It would be quite interesting if pedestrians took the same offence at other people "invading" their personal 4x4 zone while pootling down the pavement, wouldn't it?

 

[marzjennings]

Do you *always* get upset when someone gets within about five feet of you, or is that just when you're in the car? It's a good job we don't all feel that way all the time, or the average city - and the average office - would be basically unworkable.

Errr, no.

 

[marzjennings]

[QUOTE 2125819, member: 9609"]OK, fair enough then - "having a word" has other connotations in my neck of the woods
.[/quote]

Ah yes, I wasn't thinking. I've been away from home for too long, Forgetting me own tongue.

 

[dellzeqq]

well I did at least answer the OP s question, before you lot decided to divert it with the usual bollox, driven by your hatred of cars... what the feck here's another smilie for you

I think the hatred (along with the threats of violence) are all one way

 

[Boris Bajic]

I think the hatred (along with the threats of violence) are all one way

On this thread and others like it, I think you're quite right and few would question it.

But this is the Internet, where slim Joe from accounts can become a marauding avenger of the streets and fantasize about bashing bad, naughty bicyclists.

Many contributors here are (I imagine) both cyclists and motorists. Most motorists have a benign, live-&-let-live attitude to cyclists and pedestrians.

Similarly, most cyclists have a positive view of motorists. That's as it should be, because most road users are skilled and courteous.

These fun little chats on the harmless and impersonal Internet can whip either side up into an unseemly froth of wasted shaving soap, but the streets are not full of felled cyclists who lie there bashed because they touched a car to keep their balance.

This may be because most (all) cyclists know a thing or two about good manners and most motorists are not road-rage pressure cookers on the verge of spewing the steam of hate all over the kitchen walls.

Most people are lovely and don't have the time or energy to take hatred and threats of violence beyong the Internet. Or waspish quips.

Yesterday I did 38 miles in the p1ssiest of p1ssy, thin, penetrating rain on a newly (and fully) fettled fixed bike. Loads of cars and trucks ran me too close. There was wet, gripless farm mud on many of the faster descents. When not blue, my knuckles were white.

I loved it. My cycling clothes and shoes are still not dry and my beautiful, clean, lubed bike now looks like the detritus of war.

That's what it's all about, not amusing but pointless Internet spats about who hates whom the more.

 

[green1]

Do you *always* get upset when someone gets within about five feet of you, or is that just when you're in the car? It's a good job we don't all feel that way all the time, or the average city - and the average office - would be basically unworkable.

I don't no, but I do get very pissed of when people when people start messing with my personal possessions which on on my desk at work (3d mouse, calculator, pen (it's an expensive one) etc).

 

[lukesdad]

Get him to explain to you the difference between questioning car obsessed culture and car hating while you are there.

Its you who is obsessed, you divert to this line every at every opportunity.

 

[lukesdad]

I don't no, but I do get very ****ed of when people when people start messing with my personal possessions which on on my desk at work (3d mouse, calculator, pen (it's an expensive one) etc).

I think you might need to get some help with that