Confronting a squid

On Oct 11, 7:48 pm, ~kurt <actinouran... RemoveThis @earthlink.net> wrote:
> Bob Nixon <bigrex2... RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Moral of the story: let nature take it's course and help fix the gene
> > pool rather than comfronting a COOL young DUDE with a sub 100 IQ,
> > who's too cool for school;)
>
> Too bad he had a chance to breed first....

My experience has been that young men mature at different rates, and
the rate at which they grow up and become responsible has little or
nothing to do with their actual intelligence.

Bob Nixon wrote:
> 1st of all there are several young fellahs on my nieghborood that own
> 600SS bikes. But they're not all squids or at least not all
> stereotipical examples.
>
> Next: I ride a bicycle around my inner neighborhood daily between 5:00
> & 6:00PM, including the local park. I do this mainly to get exersise
> for my heart and false right leg. Anyway, whenever I see a guy ride in
> his driveway on a sportbike I stop and start a conversation about
> sport bikes, introducing myself and that I ride them too. Most the
> interactions have been positive and I even took my bike to a couple of
> their houses and even let one guy with a 636 ride my SV around the
> block.
>
> Finally, yesterday a guy pulls up to the park on his new R6, I'd seen
> him around the hood before (once with both he and his wife riding with
> no helmets, shorts and flip/flops). His wife pulled up across the
> street in an SUV with their young boy (maybe 3-4 years old). I started
> talking to the guy and showed him my artificial leg (that usually
> disarms most people). I explained that him riding with no helmet or
> any other safety gear was not only dangerous to himself but made the
> rest of us riders look bad. From there on he took on a defensive tone
> and bragged that he rode with the Hell Riders; impressive eh? The guy
> looked like a body builder and could have prolly snapped me like a
> twig but I keep up my rhetoric pointing at his huge chicken strips and
> if he'd ever seen what an R6 was designed for and had he ever seen the
> guys at the local racetrack, etc. I even said, if this is your main
> means of transport then why didn't you buy a nice used EX500 or SV-650
> for your 1st bike? This got him really angry and he said it was none
> of my business (which was true but...). Anyway, at that point he was
> cussing at me then he, wife & kid started walking into the park and my
> parting comment was to his wife, "how would she like to think of your
> son as an orphan".
>
> Moral of the story: let nature take it's course and help fix the gene
> pool rather than comfronting a COOL young DUDE with a sub 100 IQ,
> who's too cool for school;)
>
> Bob Nixon.
>


Well, I would have been civil up to the point where the lecture started.
It's OK to discuss motorcycles with fellow motorcyclists, but as soon as
you grab the moral highground and start saying 'how it should be' with
safety gear I'd tune right out. How I make other bikers look is of no
concern to me. If I'm wearing jeans I might be going out where it would
be uncomfortable to wear M/C gear....or I might just enjoy riding in
jeans on the day?

Then when you got to the 'chicken strips' comments I'd do what I've
advised a mate to do....play dumb and ask what a chicken strip is, and
when you bend down to point to it, slap you round the ears for being a
smart bastard! (Don't think old age gives you free reign to run your
mouth off.....even when you are right!)

And then you bag his choice of bike!!!! I don't know how you can get on
a bike with balls that big!

You still ride after near death encounters, do you see yourself as
someone who should give up motorcycles 'for the sake of your grandchildren'?