Dan Cosley said:Anyone else have similar incidents and/or
better ideas for responses?
When a teenager, I was stopped by two other teens (both bigger than me) when
one of them grabbed my handlebars. One of them wanted to know what I was
saying about him.
I was totally baffled. I'd never seen this guy before, and I said so. I
told him I had no idea what he was talking about. That kind of [censored] him
off, and he tried to get on my bike. I don't remember exactly what I did,
but I know I was not going to just let him take off on my bike.
His buddy started to explain what I had done, and the lights went on. A few
days earlier I had witnessed a spectacular truck crash, and had been
describing it to a friend. The whole while, this guy must have been
standing where one of the cars came to a stop, and I kept pointing over
there.
"Oh, no! Now I know what you're talking about! No, man, I wasn't talking
about you!..." I told him about the crash and about explaining it and he
seemed satisfied. I never saw him again.
Austin