3 accidents in half a month

Sometimes you have these kind of days...

1 (stupid):
Two weeks ago I'm riding on a footpath, early in the morning, very
relaxed, as usual just on 20", and just drinkin' Cherry Coke. I enter
an empty crossing between the houses of that street, where I have the
right of way. However I always slow down, as you just never know.
All over sudden a woman comes around the corner on bicycle with VERY
high speed (on the footpath, while there is a cyclepath). Despite my
slow speed, and even with my experience on unicycle plus my semi-pro
bicycling experience, I can't move away for only that half a body-width
out of the line she's in. And decide to let me be hit straigth in front
(catching her handlebars to take over control).
She said "sorry", but tells me I should not ride on the footpath
neither. I tell her I should, as I'm pedestrian by law. She asks wether
I'm sure. I tell her that if she wants to discuss I will call out the
cops.
She's I guess about 15 years older than I am, and I tell her she's
stupid to ride this unresponsible.
What if a baby-pushcart was there? Or someone in a wheelchair? Could
have become even more disabled for life!
Then she starts talking in a way implicating I should shut up because
she already said sorry. In other words I'm not allowed to complain I
was just hit. I loose my patience with her, and want to put that
adrealine-rush she caused at the right place. But as I wont hit women,
I splash the entire content of my bottle of cherry coke into her
haircut that must have took her 44 years to create. Now she starts
screaming like a pig, telling me I'm an idiot. The tone in her voice
made me conclude the result was even much better than I could have
imagened. She goes back home, I turn 180 degrees to buy myself a new
bottle.

2 (dumb):
The day before yesterday I was riding at a cyclepath, entering an
overtake, where I had to yield to pedestrians.
A fat man watches my unicycling, keeping me in doubt wether he will or
wont cross the cyclepath. It looks like he wont, so I ride on. So far
so good, but...
When I passed him he keeps watching me, while he starts crossing the
cyclepath... and he got hit by the bicyclist behind me.
But as the man was very fat and heavy, the bicyclist smacks to the
ground! with an awfull sound.
In the Netherlands pedestrian are very protected by law. The worst
thing you can do is making a crash at such a overtake.
Cause even if a pedestrian walked trough a red light there, it will be
your mistake.
As I was'nt to blame (-she did'nt yield to the pedestrian-), I rather
stayed out of any conversation, and as I saw that others took care of
her already, I made my way out of there.

3 (wierd):
Today I was entering a crossing. The cycle-traffic-light for straight
on is green, while the car-traffic-light for right is green as well
(which means always a tricky situation). The car driver -who has to
give way to me- is paying too much attention to me as unicyclist, he
does'nt look in font, the road is wet, his car obvious has no ABS, and
so he hits the car in front of him. As the crossing was busy... both
drivers just continued their (different) ways without even stopping.
Just like me.


Now the month is only half-way, but I do hope to always stay out of
these kind of things.


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Bike lights? Thats awesome.


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That first one is priceles...I laughed my ass off.


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i thought they all were good


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i suppose that pouring Cherry Coke into a girls hair isnt as bad as
punching her in the face. man pretty funny tho. and you were right, she
shouldnt have been on the footpath and you had every right to be there.
hehe


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i thought fat people only lived in the US...

and i thorougly enjoyed the first story, although it's too bad that you
had to spend the money on another coke, and got hit by a bike for that
matter.


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^^^ same here

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leo wrote:
I splash the entire content of my bottle of cherry coke into her
haircut



This should be in the funny comebacks thread!


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Het eerste verhaal is geweldig Leo
Heb mij kapot gelachen.


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HAHA, the first one is hilarious..i cant stop laughing, the other ones
are pretty funny but the 1st one!!!


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