Modern Buddy

On my way home this evening a gal and her husband in a beat up old Tempo were 'racing' me (I was going the speed limit, so...). When we went around an S curve, she paced me and came into my lane. I let her have it with the horn. No gestures, no ranting, just the horn.

when they caught up to me at the next light, he threw a beer bottle at me! Fortunately he's no expert, but still...seriously? Maybe that's why all you own is a beat up old car, BECAUSE YOU'RE A BUNCHA JERKS! .

turns out he was going to the same store I was! I pulled up, turned off the bike, and just sat there with the visor up. I felt a discussion was necessary, they felt it was best to do their shopping another time.

People are really too much sometimes.

I read your post about this on MV but didnt realize it happened recently. For the love of god cant people just live and let live? Too bad its really a bad idea to engage these a-holes because revenge would be nice. Glad he didnt hit ya bro. Hope that Buddy's running well!

Does Colorado not have open container laws?!?

There's only one word for that behavior: trash.

(And obvs not referring to you, skully)

I would have gotten my small-statured ass off the scoot, grabbed the guy and given him a good what-for! He could have killed you!

...although, I would probably get in less trouble than a dude for doing that, I'm sure.

Dumb jerks. I've had enough of people on the roads these days. Nobody seems to give two loads about anyone else. It's just me me me MEEEE!

I had some old coot and his wife sit at a stop sign perpendicular to the road I was on for a good 20-30 seconds before I was even close to them, while I was traveling at oh 45-50mph, and wait until I was within a couple hundred feet to pull out in front of me. He took his sweet time getting up to speed, then continued at 7mph LESS than the speed limit! The guy had the nerve to break check me, and have his lady give ME the finger!
I wasn't even tail gating, I just beeped at him for cutting me off! A-holes.

SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOW!!!!!!

I think I would have tried to get the plate number, pulled over and called the State Patrol to report them.
I keep the number in my mobile phone.
For future reference, it's *277 in Colorado.

Glad you're OK, man.

Develop your scooter-Jedi powers to spot them early, then help them take their stupid elsewhere! As in, seek ways to put safe distance between them and you.

Glad you're alright and it was just a bottle.

(Hey, cool...autocorrect capitalized "Jedi". The force is strong with my iTouch!)

Jeez, what wackos.

Glad you're okay!

I am amazed at your ability to keep your cool. I don't feel like I could have demonstrated that same restraint.

Wow Skully glad to hear you are ok,

I had a guy (must have thought I was too close behind him or something, he got so mad, started screaming! I couldnt hear a thing since I had my helmet on and music going. He got so mad he was turning around in his seat to make sure I saw him screaming. made sure he got in front of me and went Way slow, so i waited paitently behind him at the light, followed him until he made a turn (then gave him the old "jack off" sign as I drove by, which Im sure he loved)

Some people just want to act like scooter people must be so uncool cause all they can do is ride a scooter, what an ass, not to worried about a fight, I'm 6'5" and close to 240lbs.
Dont know how I would react if I got a bottle thrown at me.

I did have some young kid run me off the road cause he didnt look at the lane next to him before he came over. I caught up to him at the next light, made sure we made eye contact in his mirror, and gave him a hand signal that I wanted to talk, so I pulled along side his SUV at that stop light, flipped up my viser and told him he ran me off the road, and he need to open his eyes, and watch for that. He opogiezed and that was that, but again its no beer bottle. Thats dangerous.

Good looking out Skully, Im sure they were freaked out when you were at the same place they were going. My buddy rides with a gun on his leg because some guy threatened him cause he was going to slow for the guy, had to call the cops and everything. Colorado is an open carry state, so as long as its visable he cant get in trouble for it, I dont know if I'd go that far, that seems to be asking for trouble.

Way too many people are just prize asses these days ... No matter what you are driving, let alone walking. Where I live we have two MARKED crosswalks in the middle of the block. You can be in the middle of one and drivers will zoom through it honking and swearing. Sometimes they stop at the lat minute and act like they are doing YOU a favor. My first day with my scooter was Saturday and within the first forty minutes I was at a light, a guy in a huge pickup truck got right behind me and blasted his horn. When the light changed he flew around me and blasted it again. A few hours later he was parked in the public lot behind where I live. I was taking my dog out for a walk, and I went up to his truck and let all the air out of the front tire on the passenger side. I come back from my walk and the guy is standing theatre with a WTF expression on his face. I told him I saw him being a complete jerk on the road. I suggested that if he was going to be an ass, perhaps he should not drive such a conspicuous vehicle, and suggested he in invest in a tripple A membership and I lent him my hand pump. That was a sight. He brought it back and saw the scooter. He actually appologized.

I once had some yutz throw a can out of the passenger window while passing me, but he missed, and had to shoot off ahead of me into the distance.

Geez. Drivers these days. Sorry in advance to the Tulsa folks here, but I was visiting TU with my son yesterday (in our MINI) and had decided to gas up after buying a soda at the QuikTrip. I back up from the store and start to swing over to the pump area. This pickup truck full of knucklehead youts comes in off the street, cuts me off pretty dramatically, and all the while the driver is leaning out his window yelling [un]intelligibly at me. The others are tossing their empty beer cans into the trash as yutz #1 gasses-up. Real Men must not drive MINIs there, I guess.

But to paraphrase the great Charlie Daniels, "The last thing I wanted was to get in a fight in Tulsa Oklahoma on a Monday night, especially when there was 5 of them and only 1 of me".

[Edit: did I say "intelligibly"? Whatever was I thinking?]

No... Real men DO drive Minis. Real men who are comfortable with who they are and who do not need huge SUVs because they lack the real ones. The next thing on my wish list is a mini to replace my current small sedan(that gets fairly bad gas mileage PLUS it cost me just over $50 to fill it yesterday here on the Missouri side for crying out loud. Glad I got a scooter when I did.

Mutt the Hoople wrote: Where I live we have two MARKED crosswalks in the middle of the block. You can be in the middle of one and drivers will zoom through it honking and swearing. Sometimes they stop at the lat minute and act like they are doing YOU a favor.

Cross walk issues actually disgust me.... Once in town I stopped for some one in a cross walk while on the scooter, someone zoomed past me and actually clipped the pedestrian with his mirror blaring his horn and cussing out the window at me for stopping in the middle of the street!!! Our town even has signs on the center line at the cross walks reminding people it's the law to stop......

Mutt the Hoople wrote:He brought it back and saw the scooter. He actually appologized.

Nice that he actually 'stepped up' and did that. Watch your back however, jerks will be jerks even though they will be nice to your face.

Yes... True, a jerk is a jerk. I just get sick of it. I walk lot. I choose to. I have a car but I chose to live in a place where I can walk a lot and I take the Metro Link as well. It never ceases to amaze me just how aggressive we have become as a society, and nowhere is it more obvious then when one observes people's driving habits. Don't even get me going on driving with cell phones. I put my phone on the airplane mode when I drive. Whoever calls me can leave a message. When I get where I am going I will call them back. And my friends think I'm ridiculous! Whatever.

rsrider wrote:SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOW!!!!!!

rsrider wrote:SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOW!!!!!!

"HOOCHIE MAMA!"

(Just keeping the Sienfeld insanity going.)

Happy Riding
Kirk

You were probably slowing them down on their way to their meth lab. Either that, or they were college professors on their way to give a lecture.

Skully,

I am glad you are not hurt; I am glad you were able to stay relatively calm & that your presence at their destination caused them to egress which defused the situation; I empathize and feel bad this happened to you; we have to be defensive and ultra alert at all times...

I don't like folks stopping too close to me at red lights and lately people are doing it to me alot; I turn around and give them a quick glance...sometimes they understand and sometimes they continue to do it; I even had to pull onto the shoulder because someone kept inching up to me anticpating the green light; was the driver that friggin' blind to not see me or were they provoking a fight?!? I will never know, but I dislike stopping at red lights due to that jackwagon...

another example of idiotic behavior...I had an incident where I was trying to stop for a red light by braking and slowing down for the yellow, but the jackwagon behind me must have been taught to blow through yellow lights!!! even flashing my brake lights didn't help; I coasted through the light and swerved to get out of the traffic path of that idiot...they expressed their 'appreciation' by wailing on the horn as they blew by! this happened the first night after I earned my motorcycle license on the way to work; I always recall this incident every time I approach that intersection

it seems common courtesy and common sense are out of fashion...

Omg. I was out today going down a fairly busy street and was crossing an intersection on green and two cars were coming off of the interstate and had a red. The first driver stopped then made a perfectly legal right turn on red. The person behind him did NOT stop and rear ended the first driver and almost pushed him into me. I pulled over to see if everyone was okay. Luckily it happened right in front of a fire station. I waited be because I saw it. The first driver was not okay. His airbag did not deploy and he whacked his head on the steering wheel. The girl that caused the accident tried to e the other driver by saying he stopped in front of her. He didn't. She made no attempt whatsoever to stop or slow down. I told her I saw it and she almost creamed me as well. She had no remorse at all and was. Of even concerned about the person she hit. He had become nauseated and passed out. He appeared to have a concussion. I do not even begin to understand people like that. I just don't get it. She did have a lot of concern for her car, however.

I know what the problem is in your area, Skully: you Denver Sportique scooter people just have too much fun and must be punished by all the hot-head losers on the front range. We even went to the scooter trade show in that area a coupla years ago and a bunch of folks showed up on SCOOTERS and looked like they were having a good time while being fairly well-behaved. Well, those kind of people MUST be made to feel the pain in some way. We just can't have people like that on the loose. What would all the LOSERS do if we allowed that?

Glad to hear you are OK and I am not surprised they bagged out with you staring at them with the visor up. I woulda loved to be a fly in that car with a camcorder!

Karl

Something similar had happend to this guy while on his Ninja.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMaXKM9t ... re=related

So its never just a scooter thing.

That Scooter Guy wrote:You were probably slowing them down on their way to their meth lab. Either that, or they were college professors on their way to give a lecture.

Or these guys?



In all seriousness, It's good to know you are ok and especially that you kept your cool. It could've been a lot worse, other then being hit by the bottle. You could very well have confronted and set off a mentally unstable or individual who has nothing to lose and is ready to take it to a whole other level. On the other side, if you were to lose your cool, there are a lot of cops who will probably show up and see the irate scooter rider blowing up and losing a gasket. Unfortunately, it's next to impossible to prosecute road ragers, and most jurisdictions won't pursue it unless there is physical or property damage. Better off just keeping your guard up and trying not to light the fuse of the timebombs that are all around us. People are more and more stressed, with endless obligations and less ways and time to channel out that frustration in a positive way, so it's spilling out on our highways.

Be safe everyone!

Thanks guys!

I know that I am actually a totally impatient jerk behind the wheel. I hate driving. Well, actually driving is fine but people are not.

Now, scooting is my zen. I really enjoy a good ride, esp of the weather is perfect and there are a couple others to scoot with me.

I had just had the most wonderful day and there was no shaking me out of that mood. I've done martial arts most of my life, but I wouldn't call myself a prize fighter. What it has given me is the ability to see stupid coming and even sometimes remain calm and enjoy watching others lose it.. I think the guy in question realized that maybe he'd had too many beers and made a stupid decision, and hopefully he'll make better ones in the future. I think if he had caused me to lose a tire or mark up the bike, I probably would have actually done something vindictive.

Mutt, I love the tire story! I think more people need to have non-permanent things like that happen to them, so they have time to reflect on their asshattery.

skully93 wrote:
I know that I am actually a totally impatient jerk behind the wheel.

I used to be a horribly impatient driver myself...until I started riding my scooter. I am a better driver now because I "see" the road better and watch for other vehicles (2 & 4 wheeled).