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Pickup Lines to Avoid
« on: August 19, 2009, 01:23:41 pm »
This afternoon I'm on my hybrid commuter bike, starting a left turn from one road to another (traffic lights, turn lane...) when a cyclist blows through the red from right to left.  Blonde, cute, spandex, racing bike.  Very nice.  I'm turning behind her anyway so I catch up quickly because I'm actually faster than her despite all that; pass her and then have to stop for the next red light where she catches up.  While waiting for the light I say over my left shoulder, "So, judging by that last intersection, this waiting for a red light thing is a new experience for you.  How does it feel?"

Her eyes were still seering into my back 2 km down the road when I finally turned off for my destination.
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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2009, 01:29:27 pm »
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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2009, 03:08:40 pm »
I see cyclists blowing stop signs and red lights almost every day.  Can they get a ticket for doing that? 

Nice line you threw at her, BTW.   :rofl2:

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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2009, 03:43:34 pm »
Ticket and points on their license I believe.

Since part of my commute is through Harbourfront I see at leat 5-10/day blowing through red lights/stop signs. One day I even saw a guy get a talking to from a cop, don't know if he got a ticket.

The best is when they try to squeeze between me (when I do stop  ;)) and the car beside me.  ::) One of these days I might be stretching and they will get an elbow to the face.
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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 09:45:57 pm »
Ticket and points on their license I believe.

Since part of my commute is through Harbourfront I see at leat 5-10/day blowing through red lights/stop signs. One day I even saw a guy get a talking to from a cop, don't know if he got a ticket.

The best is when they try to squeeze between me (when I do stop  ;)) and the car beside me.  ::) One of these days I might be stretching and they will get an elbow to the face.
Funny, I was in Toronto last week and I noticed the cops had set up a sting operation just north of Queen on one of the one-way streets that feeds on to Peter Street.  They were ticketing cyclists that were going...you guessed it (!) the wrong way down the one-way street.  They had about 3 cyclists in the queue waiting for their own ticket. 

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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 10:19:00 pm »
Did you get her number?  :D

Bicyclists and pedestrians can be tickets for HTA and bylaw violations.  Just need more police enforcement to get the point across. 



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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2009, 10:32:52 pm »
Blowing through red lights makes my blood boil.
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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2009, 03:35:10 am »
This afternoon I'm on my hybrid commuter bike, starting a left turn from one road to another (traffic lights, turn lane...) when a cyclist blows through the red from right to left.  Blonde, cute, spandex, racing bike.  Very nice.  I'm turning behind her anyway so I catch up quickly because I'm actually faster than her despite all that; pass her and then have to stop for the next red light where she catches up.  While waiting for the light I say over my left shoulder, "So, judging by that last intersection, this waiting for a red light thing is a new experience for you.  How does it feel?"

Her eyes were still seering into my back 2 km down the road when I finally turned off for my destination.

My best pickup line ever, though not two-wheel related.

In high school, I did a lot of work with the school theater, and we were doing a "lock in" one weekend (spend two days there, as a combination of bonding and getting a TON of work done on set construction, lighting, repairs, etc).  There was a girl there who I quite fancied.  She was a vegetarian, which I knew.  I was a teenage boy, and thus genetically devoid of sensitivity or tact.

Dinner came around, and, being quite hungry and desiring protein, I asked loudly "where's the bloody stuff?"

She looked at me horrified, and asked "can you imagine what the world would be like if we didn't kill animals to eat them?"

I paused for a moment, and responded "well, I imagine they'd make an awful ruckus on the dinner table."

She never spoke to me again.

It was worth it.
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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2009, 07:44:57 am »
Cops are cracking down on cyclists in town after a bunch were hit this year.

There are reports of people getting tickets for not putting both feet down at stop signs even!


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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2009, 07:51:25 am »

Dinner came around, and, being quite hungry and desiring protein, I asked loudly "where's the bloody stuff?"

She looked at me horrified, and asked "can you imagine what the world would be like if we didn't kill animals to eat them?"

I paused for a moment, and responded "well, I imagine they'd make an awful ruckus on the dinner table."

She never spoke to me again.

It was worth it.

I had a buddy who got similar treatment from a girl while in high school. He was sitting beside a well known vegetarian girl and friend of our who thought meat was "disgusting" and barely tolerated us as carnivores. My buddy was sitting beside her eating a hot dog and to our surprise bit into a fake blood pack that he got from a gag store as he took a bite of the hot dog.

As the blood creased his lips and started to run down his chin he exclaimed "I think I hit a vein". She was unhappy when she found it was a joke.
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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2009, 09:40:47 pm »
There are reports of people getting tickets for not putting both feet down at stop signs even!

Do you have to though? Say I did a track stand for 1 minute, wouldn't that count as being stopped?

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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2009, 09:45:17 pm »
^^I can't put both feet down on my Duke!!   ;D
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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2009, 09:50:00 pm »
There are reports of people getting tickets for not putting both feet down at stop signs even!

Do you have to though? Say I did a track stand for 1 minute, wouldn't that count as being stopped?

No idea, woman was told you couldn't have stopped you only had 1 foot down and was ticketed.  She had shoe clips so kind of dumb.

Today a guy was punted off his bike on the airport parkway.  Apparently rammed from behind by a 22 yr old woman, his $6000 bike is toast and he can no longer compete in some professional race he was going to enter shortly.

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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2009, 10:01:34 pm »
There are reports of people getting tickets for not putting both feet down at stop signs even!

Do you have to though? Say I did a track stand for 1 minute, wouldn't that count as being stopped?

No idea, woman was told you couldn't have stopped you only had 1 foot down and was ticketed.  She had shoe clips so kind of dumb.

Today a guy was punted off his bike on the airport parkway.  Apparently rammed from behind by a 22 yr old woman, his $6000 bike is toast and he can no longer compete in some professional race he was going to enter shortly.
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« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2009, 10:17:33 pm »
Try this one...

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Cyclist+recovers+after+encounter+with/1909937/story.html

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On Tuesday, police arrested and charged Sarah Prout-Barrett, 22, with driving while disqualified and failing to stop at the scene of the accident. She was released after a court appearance on Wednesday.

Only 22 years old and already driving while disqualified.....any odds she is a drunk?

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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2009, 10:21:41 pm »

Dinner came around, and, being quite hungry and desiring protein, I asked loudly "where's the bloody stuff?"

She looked at me horrified, and asked "can you imagine what the world would be like if we didn't kill animals to eat them?"

I paused for a moment, and responded "well, I imagine they'd make an awful ruckus on the dinner table."

She never spoke to me again.

It was worth it.

I had a buddy who got similar treatment from a girl while in high school. He was sitting beside a well known vegetarian girl and friend of our who thought meat was "disgusting" and barely tolerated us as carnivores. My buddy was sitting beside her eating a hot dog and to our surprise bit into a fake blood pack that he got from a gag store as he took a bite of the hot dog.

As the blood creased his lips and started to run down his chin he exclaimed "I think I hit a vein". She was unhappy when she found it was a joke.

Heh.

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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2009, 11:38:55 pm »
Cops are cracking down on cyclists in town after a bunch were hit this year.

There are reports of people getting tickets for not putting both feet down at stop signs even!

 >:(  Typical!  There's a rash of "car drivers behaving badly and maiming cyclists" incidents so as a response the cops decide to harass the cyclists.  Talk about adding insult to injury (and not even figuratively).  :P  ::)
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Re: Pickup Lines to Avoid
« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2009, 08:00:44 am »
2 more hit this morning or last night or something in Ottawa.

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« Reply #19 on: August 21, 2009, 09:20:22 am »
2 more hit this morning or last night or something in Ottawa.

What?!?  Any details?   I couldn't find anything online about it (yet).