Anyone have a really embarrassing road story? It can be with you driving or in the car with someone else driving.
>Be me before I got my liscense
>Bicycle is my only method of transportation, fuck leeching off my parents or taking the bus
>I decide I'll head over to a friend's house
>Have to cross this awkard intersection connected to the highway
>Have to turn even if going straight through the intersection
>Pull up behind black pick up truck in the stright/left-turn lane
>Big 16 wheeler pulls up behind me
>Maroon Sedan pulls up in the right-turn only lane
>Realize my cellphone will die, so I pull it out to put it in low power mode
>While I have my cellphone out the light turns green
>Black pickup hasn't moved yet
>Start putting cellphone back in pocket
>The 16 wheeler starts revving it's engine at me
>OhFuck.jpg
>I panic and start going forward
>Phone sticking 60% out of pocket
>Try to put phone back in pocket
>Slide off bicycle seat and hit my nuts on the bicycle frame
>LIFEISPAIN.jpg
>Stopped in the middle of the intersection
>Maroon sedan decides to take a left turn from the right-turn only lane, trying to go around 16 wheeler and I
>Gets phone in pocket
>Get back on bike and continue forward
>Get to end of intersection
>Have to pull to side of the road to not block the intersection anymore
>Doesn't see Maroon Sedan
>Maroon Sedan is 6 inches away from running my over
>Maroon Sedan pulls to side of the road because 6 wheeler didn't see him either
>Make eye contact with Maroon Sedan 15 ft behind me
>FuckYouMan.jpg
>Look left and make eye contact with couple on other side of the road
>Lady gives me a look that says, "I know how you feel" and "I'm getting too old for this"
>Wait for cars to pass me
>Continue on to the off-ramp
>Wait for more cars to pass me
>Continue on to normal roads
>Realize I was almost killed by two people in a span of 6 seconds, both breaking traffic laws
Frankly, I'm surprised no-one flipped me off or cursed me out.
>>29925664
>Go 58mph in 55mph speed limit area
>Get tailgated
>Angry man (maybe 50 something years old with a handlebar mustache and big glasses) passes by and flips me off
What did I do wrong?
>>29925725
You did nothing wrong.
That old fart with big glasses was an asshole anyway
was 16
>be me riding home
>friend up and left when we were hanging out so I guess I'll go home
>after a bit I am down this road that I'll need to turn left after a bit
>go up over a hill/bridge
>look back to see cars if they are coming
>CAN'T SEE SHIT WITH GLASSES (no peripheral vision in the exact spot I need to see)
>angrily take off glasses an prepare to turn
>quick look, see no car
>lmaogogogo
>insert car
>car swerves left (I am on the right side of the road, crossing)
>I swerve right and begin to fall off my bike
>think I will die
>mid air get really excited at what the next life will bring and also a little fear
>land
>I am very good at bracing falls and only have a few scratches
>left elbow a little more than the right (damn, asymmetrical)
>book in my drawstring bag dug into the left of my spine, my skin is still indented there
>was wearing a fucking helmet
>realize I am still alive
>run over to the car that hit me
>sorrysorrysorryisthecarok?
>are you ok?
>yes yes I'm one are all those scratches on the car bc of me?
>are u ok?
>yeah I'm fine I said I'm fine
>overwhelming sadness that what I said was true, I wasn't hurt bad
At any rate the guy helped me carry my bike to my house (under 5 min walk away) but an ambulance stopped an checked over me, my mum came and got me out. My mum was super pissed at me.
Don't like riding my bike anymore, although I want to die. eh
That feel when nobody finds your greentext interesting and you get no (you)s
>>29926104
Damn. If only you got the sweet release we're all waiting for
>be me following faggot ass Google map direction trash
>in completely unfamiliar territory in the middle of nowhere Michigan
>try to make left turn onto this little bridge thing
>double check road name with road name on Google maps
>turn left totally miss the bridge and drive into little river thing
>knock myself unconscious
>wake up blood everywhere
>cry
>manage to squeeze out door and climb outta the river into the middle of the road
>iseethelight.avi
>turns out to be headlights
>2 old ladies come to my rescue
>lose consciousness again
>wake up in hospital
>have to call my mom to come pick me up and explain to her I was driving to meet someone off the internet & missed a bridge and drove into a river
>mfw
>>29926291
Rest assured I know that feel anon
>>29925664
>dad napping in passenger seat
>crash
anon it was really embarrassing
>>29925664
fuck you for riding a bike on the road
cunt
>>299265
>riding bike to grocery store
>have headphones on but have been riding bike for years to get around so I know what I'm doing
>have to get on other side of road I'm going down
>look behind me and see car coming with their left blinker going
>okay great they're going into this neighborhood coming up, surely they don't mean they're going to go into the left-turning lane of this light
>attempt a cross
>hear tires squealing
>thrown only about two feet
I should've told her to learn to use her fucking blinkers. I could go for days with these stories
