Every morning my commute takes me up a short hill, past stationary traffic. As the traffic is usually close to the kerb I pass on the outside. Every day I note at least one person defenestrate some object... empty coffee cup, tissue, crisp packet, apple core, etc...
About to pass a blue Mercedes, I noted a flying [censored] end. Instinctively I leant forward over my handle bars and with my right hand I batted the offending article back through the open window.
As I looked around I saw the driver, still holding the steering wheel, anxiously looking down in the region of his crotch. I chuckled the rest of the way to work! -- remove remove to reply
Every morning my commute takes me up a short hill, past stationary traffic. As the traffic is usually close to the kerb I pass on the outside. Every day I note at least one person defenestrate some object... empty coffee cup, tissue, crisp packet, apple core, etc...
About to pass a blue Mercedes, I noted a flying [censored] end. Instinctively I leant forward over my handle bars and with my right hand I batted the offending article back through the open window.
Trying to understand the motions here - someone tossed a buring cigarette butt out the window. At speed (I'd like to know how fast), you were able to track the object, react, reach down, take aim and bat the offending object back through the window? Thats quite some reflexes.
My highlight of my ride home was a discussion with a van driver that didn't seem to realise that nearly knocking a 70 year old man (not me, someone else) off his bike was wrong. As he saw it, he had a cyclist on his left, a cyclist on his right and., even though he was in a bus lane, slowing down for even a second was out of the question.
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After years of trying I finally did it.
Every morning my commute takes me up a short hill, past stationary traffic. As the traffic is usually close to the kerb I pass on the outside. Every day I note at least one person defenestrate some object... empty coffee cup, tissue, crisp packet, apple core, etc...
About to pass a blue Mercedes, I noted a flying [censored] end. Instinctively I leant forward over my handle bars and with my right hand I batted the offending article back through the open window.
As I looked around I saw the driver, still holding the steering wheel, anxiously looking down in the region of his crotch. I chuckled the rest of the way to work!
You'd be better off expressing your authoritarian urges via a full-time job: Much more scope and opportunity.
Have you ever thought of applying to become a police officer?
In article <[email hidden]>, "Johnny Klunk" <johnnyklunk@:rem0ve-this:johnnyklunk.com> says...
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Trying to understand the motions here - someone tossed a buring cigarette butt out the window. At speed (I'd like to know how fast), you were able to track the object, react, reach down, take aim and bat the offending object back through the window? Thats quite some reflexes.
Humans can manage this sort of thing fairly easily. It's why we invented bat & ball games and bicycles :-)
"Johnny Klunk" <johnnyklunk@:rem0ve-this:johnnyklunk.com> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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Trying to understand the motions here - someone tossed a buring cigarette butt out the window. At speed (I'd like to know how fast), you were able to track the object, react, reach down, take aim and bat the offending object back through the window? Thats quite some reflexes.
He was filtering past traffic and going up hill, so probably not too fast. And he'd been trying for years. Good shot that man!
I've very occasionally handed stuff back through the window after picking it up from the road, but I tend to be less confrontational these days.
Well done. Let's hope he put out the fire before his trousers and car-seat cover were completely ruined. But let's not hope that hard.
Peter.
"Tim Cain" <tim_no1@you_know_what_to_cut_timcain.co.uk> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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"Gonzalez" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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After years of trying I finally did it.
Every morning my commute takes me up a short hill, past stationary traffic. As the traffic is usually close to the kerb I pass on the outside. Every day I note at least one person defenestrate some object... empty coffee cup, tissue, crisp packet, apple core, etc...
About to pass a blue Mercedes, I noted a flying [censored] end. Instinctively I leant forward over my handle bars and with my right hand I batted the offending article back through the open window.
As I looked around I saw the driver, still holding the steering wheel, anxiously looking down in the region of his crotch. I chuckled the rest of the way to work!
You'd be better off expressing your authoritarian urges via a full-time job: Much more scope and opportunity.
Have you ever thought of applying to become a police officer?
As I looked around I saw the driver, still holding the steering wheel, anxiously looking down in the region of his crotch. I chuckled the rest of the way to work!
"It's all coming back to me now," the sailor said as he spat into the wind.
A superb manoeuvre, Gonzalez. ;-)
Many moons ago, a deranged yobbo in the passenger seat of a passing car lobbed a half empty fast food container at me. The wind caused the container to splat itself on the windscreen of his mates' car (I'd seen them chatting earlier), which was being driven close behind.
Helen, one who uses that most excellent word 'defenestrate' cannot possibly be described as an anarchist.
Every morning my commute takes me up a short hill, past stationary traffic.
Trying to understand the motions here - someone tossed a buring cigarette butt out the window. At speed (I'd like to know how fast), you were able to track the object, react, reach down, take aim and bat the offending object back through the window?
