BRING THIS BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK NOW
BRING THIS BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK NOW
Show them the goat!
Once I was on the bike lane and a lady told me "this is not a running lane" while passing me by. I replied "would be easier to pass if you weren't so fat".I'm a built 180lbs so don't get shit often, even though I run shirtless and barefoot, with short shorts, so people are just confused. All they can think is WTF. Most of the time I get funny jokes about my shoes. Why don't you have shoes? Why not, wolves don't need shoes. Where are your shoes? I lost them. It's dirty! I can wash it. Watch out, there's glass on next street! Thanks, I'm fine, there's glass everywhere. Does it hurt? Sometimes after 20 miles.If I don't know what to say, I just give a peace sign to whatever comment. I once ran with a stick, I wanted to practice pacing a marathon and I got lots of olympics flame comments. That was great!
SC Runner wrote:
The girl yelled "Put a shirt on...thats gross". So I yelled back "Put a mask on...thats gross"
Great one! I'll use that one for sure!
And awesome post from Pat the Cat!!
Bumping.
I realized how runner-friendly my current hometown is after staying a night in hotel in southern Ohio - and attempting to run at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon in 2-inch split shorts through a few busy intersections and residential streets.
A mere 3 minutes into my run I get "hey queer!"
10 minutes later it was some middle-aged redneck yelling "f--ing fagg-t" while driving past me 40 mph in his beat up truck.
30 minutes later it was another "fag" from a couple of teens on their bikes in a poor suburb.
I cut the run short because I was just pissed off and the route was lousy anyways.
I am fortunate enough to live near a D1 school where it isn't uncommon for you to see the XC/TF teams training at all hours of the day. I've also got miles of dirt roads that where hardly anyone lives, so I'm at peace most of the time.
Hats off to those who still continue to train in the poor/redneck areas.
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If a fat guy ever says anything to me i just give him a cold stare and say, "Nice tits."
During a run in high school I heard someone yelling at me from a car that was coming up the street behind me. I didnt live in the greatest area so I tensed and waited for whatever would be yelled/thrown at me as they passed by. As the car drove by me I looked over and to my surprise the driver had his head, shoulders, and most of his upper body out of the sunroof of the car(no idea how he was driving as he was the only one passenger in the car.) He looked at me and yelled "I'm the tallest man in the world!" before continuing off. Idk why but something about this has always cracked me up.
One time when I was running, some guys yelled "Why AreYou running" I then proceeded to go home and summon demons to possess them. Let's just say I never saw them again
Usually yell "shut up, democrat"
this is so true! I always think of the very best com backs when I am too far away from them haha! With that said.. I have ran back a few times ;)
Dennis wrote:
"The best comebacks are usually the one you think of a mile later."
isn't that the damn truth.
I treat the hecklers much like a stray dog. Firstly I do my best to completely ignore them. If they invade my personal space I pick up a rock to throw in case of emergency. Works pretty well.
When I was in High School XC, my little brother was in Jr. High XC. One practice, the coach had HS kids ride in a van to BF Egypt and then run back into town. As we were leaving town, the Jr. High kids were warming up. I saw my brother and with my arm out the window, but so no one in the van could see, I discretely flipped him the bird. He went full on mental, and gave me both barrels--running into the middle of the lane, and excitedly flipping off the van with both hands. My coach simply said, "What is your little brother's problem?"
Epic.
Ears2Yoo wrote:
I would venture to guess that most of the time, when someone yells something to you while you're running, they are just trying to get a rise out of you.
If you respond to them with something stupid (like most of the dumb responses in this thread already), you're doing exactly what they want. In their mind, they got the best of you because they managed to piss you off to the point where you come back with a lame response and make yourself look stupid.
The best way to deal with it is to not say anything. Put yourself in their shoes for a minute. If you were yelling out stuff to someone to get a rise out of them and they didn't respond or look in your direction whatsoever, you'd probably be a little pissed. More than likely, the person yelling out the dumb comments to the runner would think to themselves..."Damn, they didn't even hear me..." OR "Damn, they probably thought that I was yelling at someone else."
Either way, you're not giving them the benefit of showing your emotions.
Now, if however, you think of a good comeback "a mile down the road" and just so happen to bump into these d-bags later on in the day (i.e. when you're not running), by all means...go ahead and let them have it. They'll be caught off guard and think to themselves..."Shit, that really came back to bite me in the ass." If you don't see them again...then so be it. You still got the best of them.
You are right.
I never show them any emotion.
I live in a Republican state so I just take out my gun and calmly shoot them in the head with a big smile.
It works every time.
Just point and laugh at them, works every time for anything they say. No one likes being laughed at.
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this is so funny! bump
sometimes people yells things at me but like the other guy said I either can't understand what they are saying or it's something really unoriginal and not worth responding to.. if it were something creative that took some effort to think of then I may take some effort responding.. but most it's just people honking or for some reason they rev their engine as they are driving by, I'm not really sure what they are trying to insinuate by revving their engine.. That they are in a car and can drive faster than I am running or something? It's not like I am incapable of driving a car and revving an engine, I'm just choosing to run at that specific moment of time for some greater good for myself.. it's like dur dur dur lol