Stupid things people yell at you from their cars whil you are running.

Funny. This reminds me of something that happened a few years ago. I've been lifting weights for about 12 years and have gotten quite big. One of my roommates was a younger guy and was quite influential. He'd have his buddies over and they started acting strange. They'd be like, "Hey, can you help me get big like you" and stuff like that. Finally one kid just came out and said, "Can you get me some steroids"? I was like, "I don't take that shit". He said, "Yes you do" and went into my fridge and pulled a syringe of sorts out of my fridge. It was syringe of teeth whitening gel that I kept in there. Here the whole time all these kids thought it was my stash of roids! Ha, ha, ha...!

hahah some1 told me to "EAT SOMETHING!"

when I was running with 2 friends, it was directed to me because one is a normal size and 1 is a little skinny but not rediculously skinny like me. I just screamed thank you and him and his buddy;s laughed

I am absolutely convinced that after having run in cities all over the world in various cultures and across the USA that the only time I have ever had issues is in smaller towns in the US. People in big cities don't care to yell at you and most big college towns are used to seeing people running all over the place.

I've had some crazy experiences like some of the stuff listed in this thread and all of them have been in smaller towns, rural areas, etc.

There should be a thread entitled: What do you hate that drivers do to you while running? As a teenager I lived in a small rural city. I'd run quite a bit at night and always hated the drivers in the country that would throw on their brights just as they got to you!

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Here's a good one that was yelled at me today: "I'm ahead of you." I was just like "wtf?"

Years ago some of my skinny teammates(5 10, 125lb guys)

got into an"altercation" with some Huge guys in a pickup truck. The big guys said something stupid & my temmates yelled somethingabout the rednecks liking men better than women & that they should turn that truck around and make nice. Well i thought that would be the end of my friends,

however they were pretty experienced at this and postiioned themselves at each door and waited until the rednecks were about a 3rd of the way out of the door, then they mule kicked the doors as hard as they could right on the guys hands and legs.

Later it was explained to me, you wait until the first body part emerges(usually the leg) and then you kick that door as hard as you possible can, then take off.

Of course i don't suggest anyone try this, but it always puts a smile on my face when some jerk in a pickup yells at me

"Run b*tch, run!"

"Don't you get tired?"

"You're crazy--it's too hot to be running (last summer on a 90-degree day)"

"You wanna ride (a few years ago when I was running in the rain)"

"Run like a mother-f*cker!"

"Will you be my valentine?" -some guys last Valentines Day when I was running at night

"You have a hot a$$!"

"Can I have your number?" -some guy I've never seen before tried to stop me and ask

Same think as happened to me. This is How unsupportive Americans are, and shows how they have NO idea about running. and possiblly that is why alot of them are just soo fat.

I went to Kenya during the summer and trained, they love cheering alot,wazungu...wzungu ( white man). kimbia...(run)

Nowonder they are good!

"get a girl and have sex with her. you can burn more calories doing that!!!"

came from some fat ass in a pickup.

Two Guys driving by: Nice legs.

one time i got a large soda thrown at me by a passing car. blindside hit me in the side of the head and got coke all over me. i threw a pinecone at their back window when they went by the other way which i had been running with awaiting such an occasion. nailed it but they kept driving.

When i was doing a run with a group of guys once. I was the first to get back and was waiting for my friends when one of the guys came back with a massive bloody nose. It looked like he had been hit with a baseball bat. he said that he some kids in a car threw a glass of ice at him. He washed off the blood called his parents and went to the hospital. He discribed the car and licence plate to the cops and the cops tracked down the kids. They were on our rival high schools basketball team. This happened on a friday the night of the rivalrey game of our school. They were kicked off the team for the rest of the year before the game started. Sorry for my friend he had to broken nose that called for surgery that he had to have the day after this happened. His parents sued the kids and got $30,000 out of each of the three kids involved.

I also had a friend in college that was running and a car came close to hitting him because the rolled the stop sign that he grabbed the side view mirror and ripped it off. The car never stopped.

Too many to mention but these are the most recent:

"Pole Smoker!"

(from a car at 6 am on a Sunday morning, we laughed about it for the next 10 miles)

"Nothin' yet, Sugar Pants":

(a reply from some fishing dude on a bridge when I asked him if he had caught anything. I had that one coming because you can't pass yourself off as a regular guy when you are in your nutters)

"Put Them Chickens Back In The Cage":

(from a group of girls as I was running the team I coach through a warm-up)

"Just Some Crazy Man In His Underwear"

(A street lady yelled as I ran by this a few nights back, I guess I scared her as I passed by. Her man said, Holy Shit!

I don't mind people yelling, it gives me something to laugh about. Having shit thrown at you is another matter.

Maybe you need to think about changing your running attire. Notice a pattern here? Something a little less revealing me thinks!

Just last night I was running down Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, and some frat boys threw a glass at me from Top of the Hill.

They were looking down and laughing.

I just smiled and waved and ran away.

Freaking thing could have killed me.

WTH?

I got yelled at from cars all the time in San Jose, California. You would think that people would be far more civilized in Silicon Valley, but it turns out that redneck behavior is prevalent in even the nerdiest parts of America.

"RUUUUUUUN!"

"Rawr rawr rawr!" (crazy dude barking like a dog)

"Scrap scrap scrap scrap" (Mexican Norteno gangbangers who might have thought I was a Sureno because I was wearing a bright blue T-shirt and blue shoes)

"Woo woo, go go, woo woo!" (crazy white lady at a red light)

best one of all:

"You're an animal!!!" (cyclist by a reservoir)

Try running in countries outside the US. People abroad are way more respectful. Americans can be amazingly barbaric.

12 year old thread but I guess still applicable. I really haven't been yelled out with any smart comments since the late 70's. Granted I don't run as much as I did back then.

Boulderunner wrote:

Tired of Hearing Run Forest wrote:

I think we need to get together on these boards, and finally come up with a comeback to "run forest run". Ten years of hearing this and I still have nothing.

I always try to keep it humorous and yell back.. "I gotta find Bubba" in my forrest gump voice

haha