Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[WadePatton]

The revolving door of grumps. Other riders who will not, for any reason whatsoever, wave back. For F's sake, even moped riders give each other the nod or the side hand. Makes me want ot turn and chase them down and ask what the fork is their problem.

i get more consistent waves from hardly davis riders than roadie cyclists. i snub the goldwingers (not really i jest).

[WadePatton]

Small engine repair. i do it myself, and this new gas has everything screwed up. run it dry, or put shutoff in the gas line to run the carb dry. that stuff sucks water in like crazy (hygroscopic like a sponge) and causes horrible corrosions in places quite difficult to reach. old school, old gas "lacquer" is nothing next to the destruction to carburetor alloys this stuff causes.

carburetors and carb kits can sensibly be bought in quantity now.(!)

[zetroc]

Grump: allergies. Chain sneezing on the bike. Chain sneezing in the office. Chain sneezing in the break room. Chain sneezing on my lunch ride. Grump grump grump grump grump grump grump.

Hello, Benadryl and neti pot.

[Heronseye]

My very minor grump is not being able to comment on the recent bib washing frequency thread before it was closed. I truly laughed out loud when I read it...

[chasea]

My very minor grump is not being able to comment on the recent bib washing frequency thread before it was closed. I truly laughed out loud when I read it...

I texted you-know-who about locking that one even though I told him not to. He said we could revisit the issue in January.

[cody.wms]

I texted you-know-who about locking that one even though I told him not to. He said we could revisit the issue in January.

I thought your idea of just seeing where it goes would have been a great experiment. I have tons of juggalo shit I could have posted.

(I've washed my jeans once this year, but bibs every ride, FWIW).

[Tom]

One of the manifold things that annoy the hell out of me are grocery carts left all over the market's parking lot. Left jammed between two cars not two spots from the corral. Left clustered around the light pole four spots from the corral. Left dead center in the open spot... five spots from the corral. I'm the guy that looks like he works there because by the time I get over to the corral, or sometimes back to the store if the weather really sucks and the guys sent out to do roundup should get a break, I've collected a half a dozen or so.

So guess whose car got t-boned by one of those carts and is now sporting a bunch of scratches and chips right to the metal.

[Dallas Tex]

DBs that take up two spots in a parking lot to ensure that their tiny 7 year old mercedes won't get dinged.

To reclaim the 'lost' parking space, and for the good of mankind, I park my pickup truck about 6" from his driver's side door. Go ahead, ding me. I don't give a rats ass - its a pickup.

[David Tollefson]

One of the manifold things that annoy the hell out of me are grocery carts left all over the market's parking lot. Left jammed between two cars not two spots from the corral. Left clustered around the light pole four spots from the corral. Left dead center in the open spot... five spots from the corral. I'm the guy that looks like he works there because by the time I get over to the corral, or sometimes back to the store if the weather really sucks and the guys sent out to do roundup should get a break, I've collected a half a dozen or so.

So guess whose car got t-boned by one of those carts and is now sporting a bunch of scratches and chips right to the metal.

Lazy-ass people. I truly don't understand them.

[Tom]

Lazy-ass people. I truly don't understand them.

It isn't about lazy. I know lazy well, it's one of my most shining virtues. It's about people thinking they're entitled to have the whole world be all about them... and it pisses me off cause there's only room for one of those and I'm them.

I'll go do my 20 now.

[defspace]

Youth unemployment.
Sometimes I wish the apprentice system was still in place. I could be making your kitchen table right now...

[Britishbane]

One of the manifold things that annoy the hell out of me are grocery carts left all over the market's parking lot. Left jammed between two cars not two spots from the corral. Left clustered around the light pole four spots from the corral. Left dead center in the open spot... five spots from the corral. I'm the guy that looks like he works there because by the time I get over to the corral, or sometimes back to the store if the weather really sucks and the guys sent out to do roundup should get a break, I've collected a half a dozen or so.

So guess whose car got t-boned by one of those carts and is now sporting a bunch of scratches and chips right to the metal.

As the dude who used to have to chase those carts around the lot, I'd have made sure some of your items didn't "ring properly" yet made it into the your bags.

No grump today. Can I recycle last weeks? Still happening...

Doing my 20 when I get home.

[Nierman]

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[boxerboxer]

Still better without the leopard/zebra print. (Excludes leopards and zebras, obviously).

[/B]

top of the food chain? rulers of the animal kingdom?

[chasea]

Sid Selvidge, Memphis guitarist and founding member of Big Star, has passed.

[sparky33]

I'm so handsome that it is distracting for everyone around me.

[sparky33]

I had a bike fitting two days ago, and the now bike feels better. However, there is a new unidentified creaking when I pedal now. WTF. It's driving me batsh*t crazy.

[robin3mj]

I'm so handsome that it is distracting for everyone around me.

I'm so good looking I was deported from Yemen.

[monadnocky]

I'm so handsome that it is distracting for everyone around me.

That's weird. My mother tells me the same thing.

[chasea]

I had a bike fitting two days ago, and the now bike feels better. However, there is a new unidentified creaking when I pedal now. WTF. It's driving me batsh*t crazy.

Saddle rails.