Drive-By Encouragement

[mimitabby]

I was on my way home up a long incline (not really steep) and I passed
a contractor working on a house. he saw me and said "Enjoy the hill"

of course I said "thanks, I will"

[RoadRaven]

I always slow and drive behind a bike til its safe to pass and have no problem with other cars having to wait with me.

I have pro-bike stickers on the back of my car

I never toot from behind, but sometimes I will give two short toots after I have passed - sometimes I wave.

If its a cyclist we know, the boys will sometimes call out a hello to them as we pass.

[lph]

Riding home today I slowed waaay down coming to a pedestrian crossing, until I could see that the 2 teenage dudes in the beat-up old car approaching were going to let me over without me having to stop altogether (which I'm legally supposed to). I dipped my head at them to acknowledge the nicety, and then yelled "thanks!" as I crossed, since I noticed their windows were open.

Sure enough, the next minute I got two short toots, and I had to think of this thread

(Of course it MAY have been because I was wearing my shortest shorts and a tank top, plus hotshot sunglasses disguising the fact that I'm old enough to be their mom... One can always hope.)

[Starfish]

I'm old enough to be their mom... One can always hope.)

As a teenage boy said, in a recent episode of Monk, to a hot older woman when she reminded him she was old enough to be his mother, "But you're not."

You might have got the toots without the sunglasses!