View Full Version : Did somebody insult my bike?
bubbagazoo
08-03-2006, 10:46 AM
A few days ago I had to fill up with fuel. As I was paying for my fuel, the cashier looked over to the pump where my relatively large R1100RT was sitting and asked me if it was a scooter.
Should I be feeling insulted or happy that somebody actually noticed the bike? In all fairness to the cashier, all she could see was the top half of the fairing. But come on, I just put 21 litres of fuel into it.
username
08-03-2006, 11:07 AM
a great reply would have been, "yeah, it's one of those electric ones."
nhlkats
08-03-2006, 11:30 AM
ha! i would feel a little sting, yes. scooter? http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12059
since we're in the sharing mood, this happened to me last year:
standing next to my bike, parked in a parking lot with a sidewalk right next to it.
putting on my helmet.
3 adolescent girls walking towards me, in the 15-18 yr range.
one of them says extremely loudly, *smacking of the lips*, "look at dat UGLY ass motha*HELLOWORLD*ing bike."
i was hurt. emotionally.
i turn around, look at her, and say loudly, "you recognize your own kind - UGLY"
this pissed her off. she screams back to me, "what did you say to me?"
and i wont repeat what i said next but it wasnt pretty and her friends pulled her away as she was "attempting" to make physical advances towards me, and not the good kind of physical advances.
i guess the point is, sometimes it feels good to stoop to a lower level. http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif
a great reply would have been, "yeah, it's one of those electric ones."haha
bubbagazoo
08-03-2006, 12:08 PM
Were you carrying jerry cans on the scooter ? :stick
None that could be seen :)
CTHalk
08-03-2006, 01:11 PM
trying to compensate for the fact that she most likely comes from a single parent home (no dad) and hates the men mom 'dates', and hates the fact she has no dad, and hates the way the local boys just want to 'do' her and dump her afterwards for some other girl, and hates the fact that she is probably failing in school, and hates the fact that the adults at her school are always on her back for her unacceptable behaviors (but she sees it as persecution, and they are all out to get her), and hates the fact that she realizes she doesn't have anything going for her...... so she tries to be really good at SOMETHING. That something is being a bad-ass. All kids want to be good at something. The thing they choose to be good at determines what their life will be. I see it every day in the high school where I work. Sometimes it's hard to not hate a kid like that. Add her to your prayers (or all kids for that matter). You are lucky she didn't have a knife or a gun. Seriously. Kids with lots of rage, explosive reactions, and a weapon are something you don't want to go up against. Somebody gets hurt. One of my former students recently got arrested for shooting somebody that 'said something wrong'. Your girl thought she said something that was entirely appropriate, but she felt your similar response was 'totally disrespectful of her' and warranted physical harm to you. It's really hard to not want to punch a kid like that right in the nose to 'wake them up', and they really do need to 'wake up'. Glad her friends pulled her away. You would have a hard time explaining punching out a teenage girl...... and her mom might have found you and done you worse! Ah, ain't modern society grand?
screwtop
08-03-2006, 01:12 PM
A few days ago I had to fill up with fuel. As I was paying for my fuel, the cashier looked over to the pump where my relatively large R1100RT was sitting and asked me if it was a scooter.
Should I be feeling insulted or happy that somebody actually noticed the bike? In all fairness to the cashier, all she could see was the top half of the fairing. But come on, I just put 21 litres of fuel into it.
Maybe she thought you bike was one of those Suzuki "bergmans" or one of the other "scooters on steroids" the japanese have on the market these days.
If he was speaking -
Amerlish - go back and punch him in the nose.
If he was speaking English - They would call a MotoGp street bike a mean scooter.
Canadian - I don't know, but I would lean to the English translation until I found out otherwaise and take it as he noticed my bike.
:dunno :laugh
soffiler
08-03-2006, 01:59 PM
At the risk of a possible thread hijack, I got this the other day:
In the midst of getting off the bike, removing helmet, etc at my local coffee shop enroute to work, a guy comes out and jumps into the car parked beside me. He's looking over the bike, and rolls down the window to comment: "They still make bikes?" Maybe it was too early in the AM for me, but at first I couldn't even grasp what he was talking about. He follows up with "what year is it?" to which I am able to respond "05". "Ahhh, I guess they still do..." comes next. About then it dawns on me that this guy hasn't noticed a BMW motorcycle in so long that he thought maybe BMW quit making bikes or something.
It was a wierd exchange, and I guess at some level it felt a bit insulting.
gfspencer
08-03-2006, 02:11 PM
Have you ever gotten this one? "BMW??? Doesn't that stand for British Motor Works?"
BradfordBenn
08-03-2006, 08:02 PM
My favorite, walking into various establishment carrying helmet and wearing gear.
Did you ride hear today?
The best insult I got on the bike came a few weeks back. I came in on the RT and one of my coworkers who knew I was hoping for a promotion asked me if when I got the raise I was going to get the other half of the car? :laugh
PacWestGS
08-03-2006, 10:04 PM
I was sitting at a light a couple weeks back on the POA-Tour and this nice gal was sitting next to me in a Z4 Roadster, I almost (almost) looked over at her and said, "Wow, I didn't know BMW made cars, that's a nice one, what kind of mileage do you get?"
Good thing I'm a happily married man, I mean what a pickup line... :stick
Doc
I was sitting at a light a couple weeks back on the POA-Tour and this nice gal was sitting next to me in a Z4 Roadster, I almost (almost) looked over at her and said, "Wow, I didn't know BMW made cars, that's a nice one, what kind of mileage do you get?"
Good thing I'm a happily married man, I mean what a pickup line... :stick
Doc
Next time hand her one of my business cards would ya. :D
bubbagazoo
08-03-2006, 10:16 PM
I was sitting at a light a couple weeks back on the POA-Tour and this nice gal was sitting next to me in a Z4 Roadster, I almost (almost) looked over at her and said, "Wow, I didn't know BMW made cars, that's a nice one, what kind of mileage do you get?"
Good thing I'm a happily married man, I mean what a pickup line... :stick
Doc
I have had the "BMW makes motorcycles?!?" comment a few times. Then I politely explain that they have made motorcycles longer than they have made cars. :bikes
PacWestGS
08-03-2006, 10:22 PM
A few days ago I had to fill up with fuel. As I was paying for my fuel, the cashier looked over to the pump where my relatively large R1100RT was sitting and asked me if it was a scooter.
Robert, just say "YES". It's what ever you want it to be. Would you like to go for a ride??? :laugh
(Wait, your married, you can't do that) Send a card to M1ka he can take her out on his scooter....................... :bolt
bubbagazoo
08-03-2006, 10:27 PM
Robert, just say "YES". It's what ever you want it to be. Would you like to go for a ride??? :laugh
(Wait, your married, you can't do that) Send a card to M1ka he can take her out on his scooter....................... :bolt
I will be sure to get the young lass' name and phone number so he can make the arrangements :D
But what do I tell her about M1ka? :dunno
PacWestGS
08-03-2006, 10:31 PM
But what do I tell her about M1ka? :dunno
He's a fun loving guy that spends too much time on a computer, rides a BMW "Scooter" a black one (I think), and like's to talk about lilydale, this and lilydale that. :stick
bubbagazoo
08-03-2006, 10:44 PM
He's a fun loving guy that spends too much time on a computer, rides a BMW "Scooter" a black one (I think), and like's to talk about lilydale, this and lilydale that. :stick
Up here, Lilydale is a brand of chicken that is marketed on TV by some girlie sounding French chef. :rofl
She might think he has a chicken fetish.
PacWestGS
08-03-2006, 10:47 PM
:ha
:hide :lurk
I guess I will have to send you two some business cards.
Its an Atlantic Blue Roadster, the blue ones are the fast ones.
I am self employed as an information reasearcher. I do library, internet and document searches etc. for various people from lawyers to writers for example. You have a question, I find the information you are looking for. A professional wonder if you will. I work online a lot and find myself flipping between work and the this forum and other places as I accidently stumble across information in my searches that either reminds me of the forum or I think people would find interesting for some reason. I am interviewing for a career change but who knows. One reason for the change is I do spend to much time at a computer.
Lilydale. Other than Madison WI, where I was born, it is one of the few places I have been in the world that I feel like I have come home when I am here. Minnesota is the main drawback to Lilydale. Sorry to other Minnesotans.
I have found various forms of Lilydale in my travels in the US, England, Africa and Canada. I did not know about the chicken thing. Lilydale Nova Scotia was a fun accidental find. About a mile inland from Lunenburg it consists of maybe 10 house, a RCMP station and a sauer kraut plant.
The world as seen from my living room window/ office window - I work from home in - Lilydale, The State of Confusion (MN)
PacWestGS
08-04-2006, 12:51 AM
The world as seen from my living room window/ office window - I work from home in - Lilydale, The State of Confusion (MN)
Wannna TRADE?
I can garantee 36-hours a week on an airplane and no overtime.... :dance
LTOwner
08-04-2006, 02:25 AM
Don't know about slang in your guy's area, but here in the midwest, the terms scooter, and scoot are synonymous with motorcycle. Not unusual at all for a fellow rider to walk by and say "nice scoot".
nhlkats
08-04-2006, 06:49 AM
the blue ones are the fast ones.
:D the USA sticker on the back of mine gives me like, an extra 5 or 10 hp at least
beautiful shot out your window btw
rinty
08-04-2006, 07:59 AM
Nice view from your yard, M1ka; you're nice and high above the flood plain. If I can ever get past my mental block of posting pictures, I'll put up a shot of our home's west view over the Bow Valley to the Rockies. (We can check the ski conditions with a 20 power spotting scope). But the teenager's on holidays.
Best comment I've had about BMW's: "do they come in diesel too?"
My favourite riposte to insults: "Have a nice day!", while you look them square in the eye (assuming they're not 6 foot 3 and have had 15 wobbly pops).
Rinty
bubbagazoo
08-04-2006, 10:28 AM
The world as seen from my living room window/ office window - I work from home in - Lilydale, The State of Confusion (MN)
What Doc said!
I've been through MN and WI a couple of times. I really like the eastern portion of MN (where they have trees and it's not flat). I shall return someday. Just don't know when that will be.
GeneT
08-04-2006, 10:55 PM
ha! i would feel a little sting, yes. scooter? http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12059
since we're in the sharing mood, this happened to me last year:
standing next to my bike, parked in a parking lot with a sidewalk right next to it.
putting on my helmet.
3 adolescent girls walking towards me, in the 15-18 yr range.
one of them says extremely loudly, *smacking of the lips*, "look at dat UGLY ass motha*HELLOWORLD*ing bike."
i was hurt. emotionally.
i turn around, look at her, and say loudly, "you recognize your own kind - UGLY"
this pissed her off. she screams back to me, "what did you say to me?"
and i wont repeat what i said next but it wasnt pretty and her friends pulled her away as she was "attempting" to make physical advances towards me, and not the good kind of physical advances.
i guess the point is, sometimes it feels good to stoop to a lower level. http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif
haha
I was once told everyone loves a bimbo, sometimes you gotta believe it
:dance
SHawn_P
08-05-2006, 07:59 AM
Robert, that would kind of sting a bit....
I unfortunately had to go in and pay for gas one time - nice young lady said she liked my cruiser - I ride an LT...
bubbagazoo
08-05-2006, 11:00 AM
Robert, that would kind of sting a bit....
I unfortunately had to go in and pay for gas one time - nice young lady said she liked my cruiser - I ride an LT...
Ouch.
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