Anyone make fun of you?

[Tuckervill]

This is my response to people who insert their opinions where it's unwanted:

"What you think of me is none of my business."

Nobody makes fun of me for cycling because I'm an oddity all around in my little town for lots of other things. And I do these things with robust confidence, which makes it hard to criticize!

I'm sure the people I know in town who don't understand cycling had plenty of thoughts about it when we first met 4 years ago, but many of them were in AWE on Saturday when I told them my husband had just completed his first century. It was so priceless to hear their reaction while we were sitting at our sons' baseball game. People who may have thought we were nuts at first, now have a new found respect. I could see it in their faces.

Karen

[Aggie_Ama]

I also tend to write it off as masked jealousy. They want to have the drive to do something like this. Making fun of you is their way of hiding they feel they couldn't do it. At least in some cases I believe it to be true.