The Funny things non-cycling work mates/others say....

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ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
We were on a 50 miler a while back through the Kent countryside, about half way through we hit a pub for food and drinkies.
Chap sitting at the bar asked where were we going, we said on to Paddock Wood via a certain route. He look very puzzled and asked why are we going that way when we could go a different way which would take half the time.
He couldn't grasp the fact that we were on a ride and not just wanting to get somwhere fast.
 

Mr Phoebus

New Member
ianrauk said:
We were on a 50 miler a while back through the Kent countryside, about half way through we hit a pub for food and drinkies.
Chap sitting at the bar asked where were we going, we said on to Paddock Wood via a certain route. He look very puzzled and asked why are we going that way when we could go a different way which would take half the time.
He couldn't grasp the fact that we were on a ride and not just wanting to get somwhere fast.

I've had that on a number of occasions.
Each time I reply: "If I wanted to save petrol, I'd do that. But I don't drink petrol, mainly I drink tea." ;)
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
simoncc said:
A twist to this topic. A couple of years ago I started cycling to a new place of work in suburban Manchester and noticed the huge amount of work-related car parking moans that other people made. One day I had to take the car to work and easily found a parking space about a quarter of a mile from the building. I told my colleagues where these easily available spaces were and they just looked at me as if I was some kind of idiot.
When I worked in Burnley, people got to work early just to grab the spaces at the 'right end' of the company car park. There were plenty of spaces, but if you didn't get there in time, you might have a 200 metre walk to the office block ;)!!

A few years back I was doing some contract work at a company based in a converted textile mill. The car park was right outside the building. There was a lift inside the door. I strolled into the car park just as some of the guy's from the department I was working in drove up. We walked in together and I headed for the stairs. "NO - HANG ON, THE LIFT IS HERE!" shouted one. I smiled and replied "It's okay, I'll take the stairs". My work mates stared in amazement at my foolhardiness. As the lift doors closed behind them, I got moving. Having sprinted up 4 double flights of stairs to the top floor of the mill, I walked over to the reception desk and was signing the visitor's book when the lift doors opened. The sight of me there stopped a conversation dead in its tracks and someone blurted out "HOW THE F**K DID YOU DO THAT!"

Last year, I made a special trip to visit my elderly mother in Coventry, fulfilling a long-held ambition of cycling down from Hebden Bridge through the Peak District. I was taking the panniers off my bike when my mother's carer walked in. "Oh, hi Colin, have you just ridden up from the station?" "No, I've cycled from home." "Er, what... your home in Yorkshire?" "That's right" "HOW - I GET TIRED JUST DOING A SHOPPING TRIP TO SAINSBURYS, AND I DRIVE THERE!!!"

Most people these days don't have a clue what it is like to be fit. Here's a charming little conversation I had at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags:

Man in car, anxiously: "So, the only car park is here, and the visitor centre is a mile that way...?"

Me astride mountain bike, cheerfully: "Yes, there is a lovely walk to it through the woods, down by the river, just take that footpath."

Man in car, angrily: "Yeah, right, and just how am I bloody well supposed to get my kids there and back - he's 10 years old and she is only 8!"

Doomed, they're all doomed, I tell you...
 
ColinJ said:
Man in car, angrily: "Yeah, right, and just how am I bloody well supposed to get my kids there and back - he's 10 years old and she is only 8!"

Doomed, they're all doomed, I tell you...
Give it a few generations, and evolution will have sorted out a whole new species of humans: homo nofarkinwayamigonnawalksis, which will be perfectly adapted for car use but then they'll die out 'cos there won't be any oil left and so they won't be able to get to the shops.
 

J4CKO

New Member
Like at the gym I used to go to, see them cruising round looking for a space near the door before running several miles round the track inside !
 

bazzadigz C+

Senior Member
slightly off topic,

we've just had our bins removed and replaced with big recycling bins over the otherside of the office, now despite this being less than 5meters away everyone wants to make a complaint as they now have to walk to them! :sad:

now i said if I can cycle 18miles a day on a bike then surely 5meters isnt going to be too bad! but no! apparaently I choose to cycle that distance so its acceptable!
 
bazzadigz C+ said:
slightly off topic,

we've just had our bins removed and replaced with big recycling bins over the otherside of the office, now despite this being less than 5meters away everyone wants to make a complaint as they now have to walk to them! :biggrin:

now i said if I can cycle 18miles a day on a bike then surely 5meters isnt going to be too bad! but no! apparaently I choose to cycle that distance so its acceptable!
.. and then everyone will blame the govmint for the "obesity epidemic"!!

We've got one at work: lives around 1.5 miles from the office by car, < 1 mile on foot / by bike. He drives, stops at the supermarket on the way in to get triple pack sandwich, crisps, coke, cakes / chocolate (don't know if he eats breakfast at home) which are all gone within 5 minutes of him arriving at work. He then moans about the traffic ("all these lazy b*gg**s driving to work" - no hint of irony!! :smile: and the price of fuel, and pays a fiver a time to go on the treadmill at a gym ~ 400m from his house once a week!!
 
Lazy-Commuter said:
.. and then everyone will blame the govmint for the "obesity epidemic"!!

We've got one at work: lives around 1.5 miles from the office by car, < 1 mile on foot / by bike. He drives, stops at the supermarket on the way in to get triple pack sandwich, crisps, coke, cakes / chocolate (don't know if he eats breakfast at home) which are all gone within 5 minutes of him arriving at work. He then moans about the traffic ("all these lazy b*gg**s driving to work" - no hint of irony!! :biggrin: and the price of fuel, and pays a fiver a time to go on the treadmill at a gym ~ 400m from his house once a week!!

A bit OT. Quite a few years back we were called in to do an investigation of traffic problems at a business park in Dublin, it would regularly take 30-45 minutes to get out of their car park onto the busy Clonskeagh Road, at that's a standstill too and sometimes it could be worse :smile:. We got one respondant to a survey we carried out who lived under a mile from their office and had no real reason to drive but they did.
 
HLaB said:
A bit OT. Quite a few years back we were called in to do an investigation of traffic problems at a business park in Dublin, it would regularly take 30-45 minutes to get out of their car park onto the busy Clonskeagh Road, at that's a standstill too and sometimes it could be worse :biggrin:. We got one respondant to a survey we carried out who lived under a mile from their office and had no real reason to drive but they did.
.. not sure if my colleague has family in Dublin, sounds like he does!!
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
J4CKO said:
Like at the gym I used to go to, see them cruising round looking for a space near the door before running several miles round the track inside !
Check this out :evil:!

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jay clock

Massive member
Location
Hampshire UK
one of my faves was on tour. We had done 70+ hilly miles in Spain and asked the way to the final town - about 10 miles away. A teenage boy said we could not get there by bike as it was too far!
 

Rhythm Thief

Legendary Member
Location
Ross on Wye
J4CKO said:
Like at the gym I used to go to, see them cruising round looking for a space near the door before running several miles round the track inside !

One of the night drivers where I work used to be a big gym freak. He would bring his trailer into our yard, drop it and drive the half a mile to the gym in his ENORMOUS! 520 horsepower tractor unit. I never could understand why he didn't walk there.
 

Downward

Guru
Location
West Midlands
Generally the Gym freaks are too intrested in Image - They can't get to the Gym all hot and Sweaty and can't arrive home that way either - Imagine the shame !
I go past the Gym and the Carpark is full with 20 cars minimum and I reckon that's how many people can actually fit in the industrial unit !
 
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