Now I’m a Karen
03-27-24, 09:03 PM
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Here once you get a half mile from I parking lot the casual walkers usually fade out. I have had one Karen encounter I had run to Lowes for a couple of tomato plants. I use a Hori Hori a traditional Japanese garden spade all the time I had just stuck it in my belt . I was stopped and ask why I thought I needed to carry that weapon in the store. Middle age bleach blonde soccer mom type. I explained to her that it was a garden tool and that I wouldn't carry a knife for self defense 😎
03-28-24, 03:53 PM
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03-28-24, 03:59 PM
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Walkers think they own the trail, drivers think they own the roads. Cyclists obviously are the bane of everyone else's existence, but I already knew that. I got yelled at by a grandpa a few weeks ago because I passed without calling out (which I'm going to be doing every 15 seconds riding a trail), and dude said "get a bell LANCE!" so I got called a "Lance"
03-28-24, 04:49 PM
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Here once you get a half mile from I parking lot the casual walkers usually fade out. I have had one Karen encounter I had run to Lowes for a couple of tomato plants. I use a Hori Hori a traditional Japanese garden spade all the time I had just stuck it in my belt . I was stopped and ask why I thought I needed to carry that weapon in the store. Middle age bleach blonde soccer mom type. I explained to her that it was a garden tool and that I wouldn't carry a knife for self defense 😎
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I slow and tell them…. “it’s OK, I’ve checked the calendar and it’s not my day to run anyone over”
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A couple of points:
- on MUPs cyclists yield to pedestrians.
- MUPs are considered recreational trails and that allows for folks to stop momentarily vs. always needing to be in a state of motion.
Yeah it's inconvenient and sometimes hazardous but cyclists absolutely do not own the trail nor have any assumed rights that supersede those of other trail users.
Of course I would like to have the whole path to myself but that's not how it works. You run into that teenager and guess who's at fault? So either find a safe way to pass or yield. I get that it's annoying and that's why I ride on the road.
- on MUPs cyclists yield to pedestrians.
- MUPs are considered recreational trails and that allows for folks to stop momentarily vs. always needing to be in a state of motion.
Yeah it's inconvenient and sometimes hazardous but cyclists absolutely do not own the trail nor have any assumed rights that supersede those of other trail users.
Of course I would like to have the whole path to myself but that's not how it works. You run into that teenager and guess who's at fault? So either find a safe way to pass or yield. I get that it's annoying and that's why I ride on the road.
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