Locking up my bike.....

[Crankarm]

Was locking up my bike yesterday when a woman (35ish) approached from adjacent road pushing a shopping trolley. I watched her thinking you are not going to dump that here.

Me: "You're not going to leave that here are you?"
Woman: "WTF has it got to do with you?"
Me "Why don't you take it back to Sainsburys? You're taking up cycle spaces and some one from Sainsburys will have to wheel it all the way back if they manage to find it. Don't be so lazy!"
Woman: "F**ck off ugly!"
Me: "Ugly! Suppose you would know looking in the mirror every morning. At least I'm not a fat lazy cow!" (She was fat with a few Pirellis around her).
Woman "F**ck off! F**ck off! F**ck off!" As she waddled off.

On way home came to a cross roads in the middle of nowhere and on the other side was a red Nissan Micra with hazard lights on, the fat git driver throwing food packaging, plastic bottles and sweet wrappers out of the car window onto the road while he troffed on the contents. I shouted "You messy, messy, messy barsteward!" He showed me he only had one middle finger and shouted "W**ker!". "Are are you!" I shouted back.

 

[Tynan]

I suppose at least she wasn't leaving it in front of her house or chucking it into the river

 

[thomas]

My Dad told me yesterday that someone threw a bottle out of her car in guildford town centre yesterday...a bloke walking past picked it up and was about to throw it back into her window.

Unfortuantely the lights changed and she drove off before he could!

 

[Ben M]

My Dad told me yesterday that someone threw a bottle out of her car in guildford town centre yesterday...a bloke walking past picked it up and was about to throw it back into her window.

Unfortuantely the lights changed and she drove off before he could!

^ The best tactic, throw it back at the buggers.

 

[gaz]

some one threw some rubbish into someone's car before. the passenger got out and stabbed the guy to death. south london for ya.

 

[Crankarm]

some one threw some rubbish into someone's car before. the passenger got out and stabbed the guy to death. south london for ya.

Yup a newly qualified doctor, a house officer in a hospital I believe he was. Several years ago now.

 

[I am Spartacus]

Did you get the £ out of it..........???
Such things would never happen at ALdi ...

 

[Crankarm]

Did you get the £ out of it..........???
Such things would never happen at ALdi ...

I don't think it had a £ in it ? I noticed it didn't have one of those immobilisers on one of the front wheels to stop it being taken too far from the shop. They automatically spring down when trolley is taken over a rough surface or strip laid in the ground preventing it being taken further.

 

[Bristol Dave]

You should have rushed over and D-locked her flabby arm to the trolley then rode off laughing!

Likewise you should have snatched his keys, ridden off a bit and as he jumped out and gave chase you should have stayed just in front until he gave up/threw up/dropped dead, then threw the keys on the floor and rode off laughing.

2 situations for a merry old laugh wasted Crankarm. For shame.

(best 'rode off laughing' smilie I could find).

BD

 

[HobbesChoice]

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and also to commuting by bike - well, cycling altogether (5 weeks), and reading this commuting forum has really helped me expect the unexpected on my journeys. The crazy incidents that happen to at least one person each week (day?) has really highlighted how diligent you really need to be! I've also not felt any of my usual paranoia at the odd things that I've come across (usually I'd wonder what I'd done for them to be so weird/mean/abusive to me)! Thanks guys!

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and also to commuting by bike - well, cycling altogether (5 weeks), and reading this commuting forum has really helped me expect the unexpected on my journeys. The crazy incidents that happen to at least one person each week (day?) has really highlighted how diligent you really need to be! I've also not felt any of my usual paranoia at the odd things that I've come across (usually I'd wonder what I'd done for them to be so weird/mean/abusive to me)! Thanks guys!

Welcome to the Merry Crew, Hobbes. As has been said before, it's often not as bad out there as you'd think from reading this forum .. but "I rode to work today and absolutely nothing happened" doesn't make a good story.

We do sometimes do the "cute / happy / smiley / fluffy things I saw today" thread, but not as often.

 

[HobbesChoice]

Generally my commute is quite uneventful but on Wednesday I found that my nutter magnet was well and truly on full power! Car doors opening and then shouting at me for daring to be cycling past at the time they wanted to leave their car. Taxi's cutting me up (and apologising I might add) and peds looking straight at me as they step out into my gutter path! But you're right, in general that's rare and I did have a think if I'd done anything different to draw that behaviour to me! But I started thanking peds and drivers who were considerate and even on my worst day the good outweighed the ugly. But as you say, those stories don't make good reading.

Thanks for the welcome LC!

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Generally my commute is quite uneventful but on Wednesday I found that my nutter magnet was well and truly on full power! Car doors opening and then shouting at me for daring to be cycling past at the time they wanted to leave their car. Taxi's cutting me up (and apologising I might add) and peds looking straight at me as they step out into my gutter path! But you're right, in general that's rare and I did have a think if I'd done anything different to draw that behaviour to me! But I started thanking peds and drivers who were considerate and even on my worst day the good outweighed the ugly. But as you say, those stories don't make good reading.

Thanks for the welcome LC!

You're welcome. Ah Gawd, now I've gone all recursive.

Yep, I find that the good far outweighs the bad: I've never had an owl fly alongside me when I was in the car, for example, and riding home through the woods in 5" of snow was one of the best commutes I've ever had by any means of transport, ever. And that's before I get started on Autum colours, blossom in the Spring, bluebells in the woods. I'm just an old tree hugger at heart.

Though I'm currently a bit concerned that I'm gonna have to eat my "rain's not that bad" words in a while: it's a bit soggy outside at the moment.

 

[Crankarm]

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and also to commuting by bike - well, cycling altogether (5 weeks), and reading this commuting forum has really helped me expect the unexpected on my journeys. The crazy incidents that happen to at least one person each week (day?) has really highlighted how diligent you really need to be! I've also not felt any of my usual paranoia at the odd things that I've come across (usually I'd wonder what I'd done for them to be so weird/mean/abusive to me)! Thanks guys!

Welcome HC. Forum etiquette - you should really start your own thread for unrelated material but as you're new will let it pass . You will see a lot of stuff if you ride regularly not all good I'm afraid. Littering/flytipping is one of my pet hates. 10 miles up the road nearer to home some one had chucked several placcy bags out the window of their vehicle, two of which had burst in the road causing rubbish to spread everywhere. Yesterday was a very windy day. Filthy barstewards.