Irritating ride....

[Aggie_Ama]

Haha- sorry you had a bad ride but it did make great reading.

One morning DH and I were doing a local ride where I had a similar experience. The lady shot me the finger to cut me off to drive on the shoulder. She then turned into the large Christian school presumably to join the outdoor activity they were staging with the children. Maybe it included an area to learn aggressive behaviors and ignoring the golden rule when you perceive inconvenience?

[kenyonchris]

Did the dog owner thank you?

LOL! Not after he bit her. She dropped him.

I did, actually, note the first three of the LP (sort of habit) of the churchgoing finger thrower. I work every other Sunday, so I plan on staking that stretch of road out...lots of cyclists use it. Hopefully, I will observe him behaving in such a fashion again and pull him over. Based upon his behavior, it may be an amusing stop (being rude never works out well).

[tctrek]

Hopefully, I will observe him behaving in such a fashion again and pull him over. Based upon his behavior, it may be an amusing stop (being rude never works out well).

I wish I could give out some tickets!!

[TrekTheKaty]

Great stories. Even before I started cycling, I always said the church parking lot is the most dangerous place in the world. Guess everyone was in a hurry to confess their sins

[OakLeaf]

Sorry you had such a crummy ride, but you sure tell a good story!

We don't even take the motorcycles out on Sundays. People just drive too crazy. After Jesus and waffles, it's beer, beer, beer for the rest of the afternoon.

[kenyonchris]

Haha- sorry you had a bad ride but it did make great reading.

One morning DH and I were doing a local ride where I had a similar experience. The lady shot me the finger to cut me off to drive on the shoulder. She then turned into the large Christian school presumably to join the outdoor activity they were staging with the children. Maybe it included an area to learn aggressive behaviors and ignoring the golden rule when you perceive inconvenience?

Don't even get me started on the Christian school moms! They are wild (if usually funny and sweet when I stop them) drivers! Nothing makes my blood run cold on the bike or make me check my radar in the car then the site of one of those minivans flying over the hill. Maybe when my cold dead body is lying near my mangled bike they can rally a little divine intervention.

[PamNY]

Funny about the dog. Would have been tempting to stop and join that guy at church.

Pam

[Kano]

I remember when I was a new driver, picking Grandpa up from his place on Sunday mornings -- very near a church, whch "changed shifts" aroud the time we picked him up. The people walking in and out were all behaving in this crazy manner --- we always figured they thought church made them invincible!

Go get 'em Chris!

Karen in Boise

[andtckrtoo]

Don't even get me started on the Christian school moms! They are wild (if usually funny and sweet when I stop them) drivers! Nothing makes my blood run cold on the bike or make me check my radar in the car then the site of one of those minivans flying over the hill. Maybe when my cold dead body is lying near my mangled bike they can rally a little divine intervention.

My sister is a mom of three and swears that there is no more dangerous driver on the road than a mom in a Minivan. Her attention is usually divided by the kids, the latest schedule and the latest gossip (j/k) with very little left for the road. (Yes, this is a generalization - I know a lot of moms who are good drivers). When I drove a Mini Cooper, the minivans were the ones I had to watch out for.

In the Bay Area I have a lot of issues with Prius drivers - almost like they put all of their brain cells into buying a car and have no more left for safe driving. Although I did almost become a hood ornament on an OLD pick up truck with an old guy behind the wheel while I was coming down a big hill on Saturday, but that was more due to the sun in the guys eyes and nothing else (well, and me going way too fast down the hill). He stopped and I stopped and all was well except for a raised heart rate on both of our ends.

[7rider]

Great stories. Even before I started cycling, I always said the church parking lot is the most dangerous place in the world. Guess everyone was in a hurry to confess their sins

Yeah...churches....and flea markets.
Holy smokes. Don't EVER get between a flea market goer and the market! Yikes. Up in Massachusetts, I used to have to ride 3-miles off my usual route on Sunday mornings to avoid going by this big flea market. People were CRAZY going into that place. Gotta get their bargains!!!

[skhill]

On a related note, back in the days when my brother was waiting tables, he'd always try to avoid the Sunday lunch shift. He always said that the post-lunch crew were the most demanding and lowest-tipping of any he'd dealt with. And I've heard similar things from friends who have been servers... I wonder what message they heard at church, and if anything about service and justice and humility came up...

I, on the other hand, almost always bike to church. And when our bishop sees me coming, he knows I'm going to hassle him yet again to put in a bike rack at the diocesan offices (I've been down there when there have been more than a dozen bikes trying to share a railing that might accomodate 4).... And yes, people think it's weird that I bike to church, but then, I think it's weird that I would drive to a location that's less than 1.5 miles from my house...