What's wrong with some other cyclists ?

[Nigel-YZ1]

I can't understand why acknowledging someone who has said something, waved or nodded is such an issue

 

[winjim]

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/brer_rabbit_meets_a_tar_baby.html

Of course Brer Rabbit does eventually come out on top in that story, if only by deus ex machina.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I can't understand why acknowledging someone who has said something, waved or nodded is such an issue

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

 

[martint235]

I can't understand why acknowledging someone who has said something, waved or nodded is such an issue

For exactly the same reason that not acknowledging someone is such an issue. We're on page 4 ffs.

 

[winjim]

I can't understand why acknowledging someone who has said something, waved or nodded is such an issue

It's not. The issue is that not acknowledging someone seems to get you a heap of abuse. First on internet forums, and now if the op is to be believed, in real life.

 

[Hacienda71]

It's a personal choice though and I wouldn't expect to get slated on an internet forum just because I can't be a****d to acknowledge someone I don't know, have never met before and am unlikely to ever meet again.

I am not slating anyone. I stated what I do and the reason why. I don't impose my views on you or anyone else. If you can't be arsed to acknowledge a greeting from someone you don't know then that is your choice.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Personally if someone says hello to me I respond to them politely in kind. I might be wrong but I was brought up believing it was good manners. I won't necessarily instigate a greeting with other cyclists but I won't ignore them if they do.

If you read the OP again, you'll see the guy did respond, albeit half heartedly by fifelad's exacting standards.

where does it say we have to get all effusive to salve someone elses personal foibles? Half hearted to someone ready to yell knob at a retreating stranger and brag about it as if its a good thing on the internet may well be a perfectly adequate a response to a normal human being anyone else.

or maybe he was sucking a gobstopper or cycling home after root canal surgery with a numb mouth or maybe his dog really had died and he really wasn't in the mood for chatting with a stranger just to make them happy.

If I'd wandered along Deansgate on Saturday waving or saying hello to everyone wearing Adidas Sambas because I was too, then followed them shouting abuse, I'd be typing this with my feet from a room with rubber walls.

 

[Hacienda71]

If you read the OP again, you'll see the guy did respond, albeit half heartedly by fifelad's exacting standards.

where does it say we have to get all effusive to salve someone elses personal foibles? Half hearted to someone ready to yell knob at a retreating stranger and brag about it as if its a good thing on the internet may well be a perfectly adequate a response to a normal human being anyone else.

or maybe he was sucking a gobstopper or cycling home after root canal surgery with a numb mouth or maybe his dog really had died and he really wasn't in the mood for chatting with a stranger just to make them happy.

If I'd wandered along Deansgate on Saturday waving or saying hello to everyone wearing Adidas Sambas because I was too, then followed them shouting abuse, I'd be typing this with my feet from a room with rubber walls.

I don't disagree I was simply stating how I respond to people who wave at me. I wasn't for a minute condoning shouting knob at someone as you pedal off in the opposite direction.

 

[thefollen]

Perhaps it's that slight light-headed feeling one can experience following a large lunch, but it took me a while (and at least until page 2) to figure out what a k**b was. I was like: "Why would you call someone a kerb?"

 

[Mugshot]

Perhaps it's that slight light-headed feeling one can experience following a large lunch, but it took me a while (and at least until page 2) to figure out what a k**b was. I was like: "Why would you call someone a kerb?"

You know, you could well be right, some on here (myself included) may have been most unfair to Fifelad. I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to him if he did indeed call the other gentleman a "kerb". Sorry @Fifelad

 

[jayonabike]

If someone had called me a kerb I'd turn around, catch them up and push them off their bike. Kerb indeed. Whats the world coming to?

 

[Markymark]

If someone had called me a kerb I'd turn around, catch them up and push them off their bike. Kerb indeed. Whats the world coming to?

Kerb. It's a 'small step' in the wrong direction.

I thank you.

 

[sussex old beginner]

hi fifelad I have the same problem down here in west sussex some of the cyclist around here think they are that good they should be in the tour de france you don't get a good morning out of them.They might have all the kit but no real friends lol

 

[Peteaud]

Out in the car yesterday and had to pass 6 in full team(s) kit etc, no problems gave them all plenty of space and as its a nasty twisty road hung back until it was clear. Last one i passed started shouting abuse, god knows why and i could not be ar$ed to find out his problem. No wonder some car drivers hate cyclists, as even when your considerate some just want to kick off.