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posted: 10/11/2008 at 2:48 AM |
Hi All,
I just got back from a nice run around my area. Well, it was nice for about the first mile. Then, someone in a car passing by screeched at me. WTF is that all about. It wouldn't have really bothered me, but it seems to happen a lot here. To not only me, but my wife as well. They wait to get right next to you, then screech as loud as they can. It's not just young kids, or teens, but people from all ages and sexes. Today it sounded like a girl. Seems like they're doing it to scare the hell out of me, when all it's doing is pissing me off.
Does this happen to anyone else? I hope not. It might just be here in Hawaii, where I've grown to realize that there is a gross lack of respect for others.
Sorry for the rant, but things like that just eat me up...  |
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posted: 10/11/2008 at 3:01 AM |
Not all of Hawai'i is like this, but I'm sorry it's like that where you are. I'm assuming you are on Oahu... where you at? How long have you lived in Hawai'i?
Sucks to get yelled at, especially for no particular reason. |
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posted: 10/11/2008 at 3:39 AM |
Yeah, Oahu. Been here for two years now on the Leeward side. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Hawaii as a whole, but this island is pretty rough.
Can't wait to get out to the other islands and relax! |
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posted: 10/11/2008 at 7:21 PM |
My favorite wasn't a yeller, just an @$$hole who was driving past and leaned on his horn when he was two feet behind me. I was obviously concerned about getting hit, and turned around to be ready for evasive action. I was preparing to step up onto a sidewalk as I turned, and my foot landed VERY awkwardly on the edge of the granite curb, wrenching my knee pretty badly. I was about five miles from home, and getting home was not a pleasant task.
It was one of my final long runs, and I was worried about being able to run my first marathon because of it. Thankfully it was not an issue, and it's never bothered me since.
Even that's not as bad as spaniel's encounter  , some people really just suck.
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posted: 10/12/2008 at 1:11 AM |
People can suck sometimes. My sister used to stockpile those snap fireworks to throw in front of runners from car windows.
She's now a runner herself and, coincidentally, much more mature. |
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posted: 10/12/2008 at 2:01 AM |
Last weekend I was running on a 2 lane road that construction had just started on so there was no sidewalk, and lots of orange barricades. (I didn't realize this when I set out for my run... when I saw this, I said something along the lines of, "oh shit.")
I ran in the road, against traffic. Since traffic wasn't bad, I stayed in the road when a car came against me, as long as there was no cars coming in the opposite direction, so they could go around me. If it looked like they didn't see me, I obviously got out of the road. If there was a car coming against them, I obviously got out of the road.
When along comes a big black Chevy Yukon. He sees me, looks straight at me. I see that the road is perfectly open for him to go around me.
Instead, he accelerates and drives straight at me. I jump quickly off the road, and shout some choice words and use some choice fingers. He almost took out all the barricades in his attempt at taking me out.
Then gain, it was a big black SUV, maybe it was just another assassination attempt. |
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posted: 10/12/2008 at 2:07 AM |
Yellers and honkers aren't so bad (though a local RA friend of mine honked at me about 2 weeks ago and I nearly jumped out of my skin...I was just about to "salute" when I saw that it was her.  )...what really sucks is f*ckers with air horns. Seriously. Some asshat did that to me 2 Summers ago and if I had been able to get to him (he was on a boat in a marina along the rail trail) he would have been eating his testicles for dinner. |
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posted: 10/12/2008 at 5:38 AM |
Quote from BadDawg on 10/11/2008 at 7:21 PM:
yeah, that really sucks! |
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posted: 10/12/2008 at 12:35 PM |
| On my last long run, someone threw a half-full water bottle at me. I'm glad they missed! |
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posted: 10/12/2008 at 3:14 PM |
I've had "Nice Ass!" yelled at me from a passing car more than a few times. I don't know if it's the same person but, it sounds like a young male. It's really odd.
I once passed a group of laughing teenage girls, one of them made a move like she was going to slap me on the ass as I passed by her group. I'm glad she didn't. I was very sweaty & it would've been very unpleasant for her.
I run at night & get more torqued off by oncoming cars that switch on their high beams in your face. WTF. I can't figure that they're all deliberately being dicks. Do they think they're being helpful or are they freaked by the idiot runner jogging down a dark street?
I first thought this thread might've been about Old Yeller. I loved that movie when I was a kid. It made me cry. |
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posted: 10/12/2008 at 3:37 PM |
On a run last week, a guy rolled down his window and told me "your boys are hanging out" (of my shorter than basketball length shorts). He drove off too fast, which is too bad as I wanted to know why he was looking.
And in case you were wondering, they weren't. |
Drew
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posted: 10/13/2008 at 12:38 PM |
| Yelling is bad, getting crap tossed at you is worse. Its happened to me a few times. If it wasn't such a pain in the ass, I'd love to carry something like a water balloon filled with some kind of permanent paint. |
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posted: 10/14/2008 at 1:19 AM |
| Quote from Craig S on 10/13/2008 at 12:38 PM: Yelling is bad, getting crap tossed at you is worse. Its happened to me a few times. If it wasn't such a pain in the ass, I'd love to carry something like a water balloon filled with some kind of permanent paint.
I've had honks, but never had anything thrown at me that I know of. I've had crackheads drive by and do the ole' fake swerve at me or come as close as humanly possible to me without hitting me with a mirror. I've often contemplated running with a handfull of chert/gravel to toss into their path as they did that. I'm sure it would leave a lasting impression on their windshield, but I'd have to beat feet to keep from being shot. |
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posted: 10/15/2008 at 8:02 PM |
| and I thought screaming from car windows at passing runners was a Westchester phenonminom... |
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