degnaw

I do get yelled at by adults, but generally they have a more "creative" vocabulary. So far, two for two "get off the road"s have been kids under ~12 years old:
-one kid sitting in the back seat of a car at a stop light, maybe 8 years old. Perhaps he inherited it from his parents?
-one girl, maybe 10-12 years old riding a bike, on the sidewalk, on the left side of the road. I nearly burst out laughing when I heard her yell at me.

Oh, and I get yelled at at least ten times more often in inner city Erie, PA than in any other place I've ridden (both above instances are from Erie). Don't think I've ever been yelled at riding near State College.

iheartbenben

So...children have yelled at you for cycling incorrectly.

It stews for a few days...

"They're the idiots!", you think frantically.

Eager to show you are indeed more intelligent than mere children, you make a post on the internet.

"Can someone affirm I am correct?!", you TAP! TAP! in hysterics.



































Challenge Accepted.

zac

Sounds to me like the OP was more amused about the situation than anything. Your post on the other hand is pure irony!

Unreasonable

He was cycling incorrectly? How?

The Human Car

FWIW I have a couple kids as passengers in a pickup truck yell at me to get off the road in a couple of small towns known for there high obesity rates. Shameful that the parents are teaching there kids that kind of junk.

sknhgy 

Most adults where I live dislike cyclists. I will often meet large pickups (prevailing vehicle around here) with the whole family enclosed. The adults will not acknowledge your presence. The young kids however will stare, and even make eye contact with a look in their eyes that I interprete to mean "cool, I wanna do that".

dynodonn 

I get more of that from very young children riding on sidewalks with their parents, sometimes I hear the young child ask their parent why I'm riding in the street, but I'm never around long enough to hear the parent's answer.

degnaw

The casual observer will note that I didn't provide any information on what I was doing, so one would be hard pressed to affirm me correct.


I once had a case where a child was leaning out the passenger window (a mere 2-3 feet away from me) watching with that kind of look. Because of the traffic light timing, this continued for nearly a mile before they pulled ahead.

gcottay

I just treat that stuff like junk mail and immediately discard it. Life is way too good to be bothered by ignorant expressions of another person's gizzard conditions.

trackhub

Can't say I've ever been yelled at by kids. The yellers in my area are generally adult males, or sometimes adult females. On occasion, I get yelled at by high school age males. I suppose you could count them as kids.

That sounds like good advice.

bragi

I don't get yelled at very often; Seattle is far too passive-aggressive for that level of honesty and directness. However, I do get yelled at every once in a great while, and the people who yell usually fall into one of three groups:

1. Fat people in their early 20s, wearing Jack in the Box uniforms and driving 1993 Chevy Corsicas (they need someone to look down on);
2. Older people ( 50 or older) driving really, really big pickup trucks (they don't like to be reminded that their F-350-driving days are numbered);
3. Anyone who just moved here from LA, particularly if they're driving something expensive (they've never seen anyone on a bike before who wasn't riding on the sidewalk).

StanSeven

This pretty much sums up my experience everywhere

Todzilla

Luckily, I live in an area where that demographic is endangered.

The worst I get is motorists who don't understand how to safely pass a cyclist. But that's bad enough.

DX-MAN

I noticed the other day, on the same street, that walkers (no sidewalk, so you have to walk in the street) get 2x the space and respect from cars as bike riders do. Of course, that could just be because it's the ghetto, where EVERYBODY walks in the street, sidewalk or no.