Walking & power-tripping on the greenway
By Dan
Note from Dan: I’ve ridden my bike on the Roanoke River greenway many times; I always call out “on the left” when passing pedestrians — and occasionally I find some walking three and four abreast in a manner that blocks whole path. But until today, it never occurred to me that those walkers might be deliberately blocking cyclists. And then I read this portion of a post from regular BobH on a thread from Wednesday.
“I participated in the CROP walk last October, some of which was on the greenway. I have never seen anything as rude as most of the bicyclists were. Most never said a word when they went zipping past and treated us like we were an annoyance to their turf. They did not believe in sharing anything, especially not the greenway.
But we got the last laugh. We strarted walking 5 abreast making the bicyclists go around us off the pavement. They had some choice words for that too, none of which were “sport” or “sir” and none of which will pass even the low standards of this BLOG.”
March 14, 2013 - 11:00 AM
One bad deed does not deserve another. Pettiness wil only make a bad situation worse
I have a bell on my bike to alert people ahead of time that I am approaching.
I agree there is a lack of courtesy on the greenway. But rudeness in response to rudeness never works. Even bringing rudeness to someone’s attention tactfully is liable to get you a dirty look or worse. It’s not a fight I want to pick when I am just out for a walk.
Oh Dan, you’ve never heard of people being deliberately uncivil using the reasoning that others were uncivil first? Think about the problems of the world that could be solved with some basic manners – or the golden rule, if you prefer. Behaviors that my dad would have labeled “character”.
Pay it forward, it might catch on…eventually.
“CROP was an acronym for the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Today, rather than thinking of CROP primarily as an acronym, we retain it as the historic name of the program. CROP Hunger Walks are interfaith hunger education and fundraising events sponsored by Church World Service and organized by CWS/CROP regional offices across the U.S.” (http://hunger.cwsglobal.org)
What a good example for the children who were in attendance! Yep, you got the last laugh!?
I ddn’t at first read who wrotew this and I immediately thought of BobH. And by golly, it was BobH playing the rude hater of cyclists!!! I believe it might have been BobH who once posted this as a funny photo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwSUfY8TZ0