The daily gripe

Bicycle riders who, although they have a nice wide bike lane, insist on riding in the auto lanes. Even if they hear/see a car coming behind them, they make no effort to move over. Lots of times they're just 2 or 3 abreast just chatting with each other. I drive in an area where these helmeted characters are on both sides of the road. So, the cars end up driving on the middle line to get some kind of distance from them. Of course, when the poor guy driving on the other side has to do the same, the cars sometimes look like they're playing 'chicken'. Come on bikers, show some courtesy! :rolleyes:

A guy on the radio was saying that he was making a left hand turn in an intersection, when a bicycle rider ran a red light and cut him off. He said he had to swerve to avoid hitting him, and almost had an accident. He said that he pulled up next to the biker, and asked him if he knew he blew through a red light. The biker said "So?". He said so...you almost caused me to have an accident back there. The biker said "Whatever", and rode away.
 
I am pretty much mellow with things that go on, and try hard not to complain when something does upset me.
I guess that is because the thing that I really do not like is someone that always goes around complaining about life, but they never want to do anything to FIX the situation. For instance, I have friends and family that are always complaining about needing money, but if you suggest a way they can earn a bit of extra money, they do not even want to try.
So my gripe is grippers who gripe, and want to keep on griping.....
 
SeaBreeze said:
Bicycle riders who, although they have a nice wide bike lane, insist on riding in the auto lanes. Even if they hear/see a car coming behind them, they make no effort to move over. Lots of times they're just 2 or 3 abreast just chatting with each other. I drive in an area where these helmeted characters are on both sides of the road. So, the cars end up driving on the middle line to get some kind of distance from them. Of course, when the poor guy driving on the other side has to do the same, the cars sometimes look like they're playing 'chicken'. Come on bikers, show some courtesy! :rolleyes:

A guy on the radio was saying that he was making a left hand turn in an intersection, when a bicycle rider ran a red light and cut him off. He said he had to swerve to avoid hitting him, and almost had an accident. He said that he pulled up next to the biker, and asked him if he knew he blew through a red light. The biker said "So?". He said so...you almost caused me to have an accident back there. The biker said "Whatever", and rode away.
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Supposedly bike riders are subject to the same laws as autos. If there's a bike lane it would make sense to use it, but legally they still have the right to use the road. What gets MY goat is the folks who go flying down the sidewalk on a bike, which is legally the same as driving a car there.

A biker has no legal requirement to pull over to allow a car to pass, unless they're doing well under the speed limit, in which case it might be a courtesy to do so. But most experienced riders know - indeed, the "conventional wisdom" is - to take up a FULL LANE, not hunch over to the side, otherwise the cars blow you off into the weeds.

I know - I've been there.

I think a very large part of the problem isn't the actual motor vehicle laws themselves, but the car culture we have here. The car is King, and woe to anyone challenging its power and authority. You don't see the same attitude in places such as Amsterdam, Belgium and Switzerland, though - there they are a lot more sane.

Yes, blowing through a red light is totally wrong - for bikes AND for cars - so perhaps that motorist should have called a cop. The majority of bikers don't even KNOW the laws pertaining to riding, much as the majority of drivers don't know them for cars.

That's why I walk. :playful:
 
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Happyflowerlady[/B];22633] So my gripe is grippers who gripe, and want to keep on griping.....
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OOOhhhhh, so true. I have a friend (?) like this. She calls me once a week to unload her gripes on me, and if I suggest something that might help the situation, she has 47 very opinionated reasons why it can't be done. Now I just listen and uhhhuh myself through the conversation...life is to short now to invest much time or emotion on people who don't want to help themselves.

Diwundrin:
People who gripe about people who gripe on a thread for people to gripe on. :cool::glee::glee::glee:
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If your computer doesn't have this key, you're on the wrong thread!
 
Well, see now there's another major catastrophe to moan about, I bought a heap of those latexy looking keyboard covers off eBay to keep the crumbs out. Worked great. Until I got this new laptop that they don't fit! Waaaaaah.
 
I went to three different furniture stores today to buy a new box spring and mattress and two of them wanted to charge me an extra $70.00 to deliver it. Seriously???? Do they think everyone has a truck or van. I bought it from the store with no delivery charge but my gripe is that if you buy furniture, they shouldn't charge extra to deliver it.
 
TICA said:
I went to three different furniture stores today to buy a new box spring and mattress and two of them wanted to charge me an extra $70.00 to deliver it. Seriously???? Do they think everyone has a truck or van. I bought it from the store with no delivery charge but my gripe is that if you buy furniture, they shouldn't charge extra to deliver it.
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The delivery charge is common practice anymore I thought. Down here it is, but many own or have someone with a truck handy. The one without the delivery charge probably has it included in the price of the box spring and mattress. ..
From my experience, every one is going to get you one way or the other. :blue:
 
On those %^&#@! rude bicycle fools:

How many times have I tried to explain to them that even if they're in the right, they lose against a 4,000 pound car?!?!? Lately, they are gaining some ill advised power on the roads. There are signs along the old twisty turnie road I travel through the coastal mountains that say . . . "Bicycles May Use Whole Road". So, now that jackass whizzing along at a zippy 20 mph is legally a road hog.

A popular T-shirt they wear now says, "Just because you own a car doesn't mean you own the road". Aren't my taxes paying for that road you are hogging???

Guy in San Francisco came flying down a hill, ran the red light and killed a pedestrian awhile back. He was finally convicted but serves no jail time. He actually had the nerve to blather online after the accident how his helmet saved his life.

I love bikes! Can't wait until my new one arrives . . .
 
That Guy said:
On those %^&#@! rude bicycle fools:

I love bikes! Can't wait until my new one arrives . . .
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You sound like my 45 yr. old son. His car sits in the garage 90% of the time. He rides his bike to work, around town (Charlotte) and to the gym most of the time. He has classes at the college a couple nights a week and is forced to drive his car there, and when the weather gets too bad for biking. He was coming home one night around dusk, and a woman backing out of her driveway didn't see him, ran smack into him and he went flying! Didn't deter him ... after a couple days of bruises and soreness, and bike repairs, it was back to the bike!
He and his wife ride their bikes for every cause that comes around too ... from 20 to 50 to 150 mile runs. It's an addiction I guess.
 
Twice today I have been frustrated by cheap Chinese crap that doesn't work. Decided to try to do a little organizing in my closet today. I recently bought a Chinese made 3 tier shoe rack that won't hold shoes. The bars the shoes set on are at such a steep angle that the shoes continually slide off. Go to pick one up and put it back causes a landslide of the other shoes. Ready to throw it through the wall.

Bought a Black and Decker toaster a few months ago based on the stupid reason it was red and matches my kitchen. Used it about a month and the mechanism that hold the toast down just stopped working. Took it back to the store and stupidly exchanged it for another one hoping the failure was just a fluke....nope, same thing happened today.:banghead::banghead:

Oh, how I miss the good old days of cheap, lower quality stuff that was three times as good as the expensive, crappy stuff being made today.
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TWHRider, please don't be so hard on yourself, take a deep breath and relax. :love_heart: You already do sooo much daily in the way of work around your land, mowing, cutting, cleaning, caring for your horses and other pets. Hey, we're getting older, and many thing that used to take one day, now take two...I don't envy you with all the daily chores you have...but, I do envy the wonderful life you have with your lovely pastures, horses, etc.

How about this emoticon...suitable :)? :banghead:
 
I just saw a show on TV about a wild animal keeper whose bear ended up killing someone. Ya know...I really hate people who take wild animals out of their natural habitats, and keep them in cages on their property. I have NO sympathy for any of these characters who get killed by their own animals, better them than someone else. The sad part is, that the poor animal is usually euthanized as well for the deed....so unfair! :what:
 
TWH Rider:
looked for a suitable emoticon for this rant but I can't find one - I'm too P.O.'d at what I didn't get done to think straight - lol lol
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Some days are diamonds and some days are coal....been a week of coal for me, so I can really relate to your frustration. I am trying to unload my brain of all the things I "have" to get done, and prioritize my list for the day..This last little foray into the medical underworld took the wind out of my sails and hubby tattled on me to the doctor yesterday about my "full steam ahead" behavior.

I'm trying hard to understand the concept of the mind is willing, but the body says forget it!

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SeaBreeze said:
I just saw a show on TV about a wild animal keeper whose bear ended up killing someone. Ya know...I really hate people who take wild animals out of their natural habitats, and keep them in cages on their property. I have NO sympathy for any of these characters who get killed by their own animals, better them than someone else. The sad part is, that the poor animal is usually euthanized as well for the deed....so unfair! :what:
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I couldn't agree more!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Poppy annoys me .. thank God he live down under ...
What really annoys me .. its so hot here and my hubby has the air conditioner on so
high .. that my daughter and I are freezing and when we get up in the morning .We
feel it still is winter ..
 
twh:
that would probably be us and we'd be sober ----------------- or------------mehbee not.
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Pretty sure I'd be "mehbbe not" lately,if given half a chance:playful: A good old rip snorter might be just what the doctor ordered...pretty sure I saw that on my chart
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