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Mystic Red
Flying Brick Rider
Joined: 28 Mar 2005
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Location: Twin Lakes Idaho
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 Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:35 pm Post subject: Passed on Right |
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A couple of weeks ago my wife and I were finishing up a 90 mile jaunt. We had safely made it almost all the way home, all we had to do is turn right off of ID HWY 41 onto the little road that leads to our house. She is a fairly new rider and I was following her. She turned her right signal on and I checked my mirrors and did the same. I saw a white car back quite a ways so I looked again and it's right behind me, pulled as far to the right as the small shoulder will allow, passing me on the right! There is not a left turn option, only a right, and people usually pass you (illegally) on the left through a painted median.
That's where I ended up, in the median, laying on the horn. This nice lady had a car full of kids and, guess what, she's on her cell phone looking at me like "what's he doing?"
Three options.
1. Check mirror and proceed with my right hand turn.
2. Follow her and use my cell to call 911 and report her as aggressive.
3. Follow her and chew her out.
I took option 1. What would you do? 
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supercat1
Flying Brick Rider
Joined: 11 Aug 2009
Posts: 458
Location: Hoboken, NJ
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:52 pm Post subject: Re: Passed on Right |
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| Mystic Red wrote: | A couple of weeks ago my wife and I were finishing up a 90 mile jaunt. We had safely made it almost all the way home, all we had to do is turn right off of ID HWY 41 onto the little road that leads to our house. She is a fairly new rider and I was following her. She turned her right signal on and I checked my mirrors and did the same. I saw a white car back quite a ways so I looked again and it's right behind me, pulled as far to the right as the small shoulder will allow, passing me on the right! There is not a left turn option, only a right, and people usually pass you (illegally) on the left through a painted median.
That's where I ended up, in the median, laying on the horn. This nice lady had a car full of kids and, guess what, she's on her cell phone looking at me like "what's he doing?"
Three options.
1. Check mirror and proceed with my right hand turn.
2. Follow her and use my cell to call 911 and report her as aggressive.
3. Follow her and chew her out.
I took option 1. What would you do? |
give her, and all her kids, a new york wave. then bitch and moan about it for a while. but that would be it. no reason to see if she carries mace or not.
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Flying Duck
PsyKotic Waterfowl
Joined: 27 Jan 2005
Posts: 10102
Location: Bumf***, WA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Track her down and use the C word in front of her kids so that she has to explain what it means to them. 
Just kidding. Blow it off, keep riding and don't let it mess with your concentration. It's part of riding.
Besides, what good would yelling at her accomplish? As Ron White says, you can't fix stupid and she'd still engage in the same dumbass behavior.
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Shoganai
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
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Location: Culpeper,VA
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| Flying Duck wrote: | | As Ron White says, you can't fix stupid and she'd still engage in the same dumbass behavior. |
He also said "I was drunk in a bar! They, threw me into public-KA! I don't want to be drunk in public!"
I love me some Rom White 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WLfY2455o
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