What did people yell at runners before "Forest Gump"??

It's weird, not only have I had just a couple things ever hurled at me over many miles since the late 60's, I've also only had the occasional comment tossed my way. A sweet lady in northern Michigan in the early 70's slowed once to ask, "Would you like a ride?" as I ran down a hill.

I ran mostly in 70s and 80s--never had a single sould yell at me once. A few times had slight tap of the horn--that always got me mad.

I once had a beer bottle thrown at me. Another time I was running on this forest road, turned the corner to come upon this fat ass lady with her pants down taking a piss. Thought I saw a full moon. Talk about gross.

Get off the f*ckin road. I've had people aim their cars at

me, and a lady told her doberman to go get me.

Most of the people who yell are related to Forrest.

20 years old wrote:

All my running career ...

Let me see if I have got this straight. You're 20 years old and already claim to have a running career? When did you start, when you were in diapers?

older, wiser,

the kid's asking a simple question you old slow fart. Answer his question or leave him alone. why the jackass remark?

faster than you wrote:

older, wiser,

the kid's asking a simple question you old slow fart. Answer his question or leave him alone. why the jackass remark?

Lets critique your stupid post, shall we?

1. Why do you think I'm an old slow fart? Do you know how fast he is? Better yet, do you know how fast I am? No, you don't! I could be 21 yrs old and smoke this sucker. That would make me older and faster, wouldn't it? You know nothing about me but somehow think you do.

2. Answer his question, huh? Of the 4 previous responses, only one of them (fred) answered his question. Why don't you jump on them for their responses ranging from car horn tappers to fat ladies pissing?

Older,Wiser, Your response was a dick response to an interesting thread. I'm sure everyone has a great story about getting yelled at or assaulted during a run. Why must you post BS like that? Nothing else to do? AssHole

I've had numerous things yelled my way in my eight years of running. The funniest and most orginal was this year while running by a sorority house when a girl yelled, "Please Eat something!"

Its too bad that all you hear anymore is "Fag!" and Forest Gump shit. When are people going to forget that movie?

And as far as fag goes, this became increasingly popular over the last 10 years. I never got that word as much in the 80's.

What did people used to say? Its hard to recall that far back since all I get is the same Forest Gump/Fag shit. But in my excperience it used to be a lot less derogatory and mean spirited. Usually stupid stuff like:

"Hup-2-3-4!

The Olympics are over!

Who you running from?

Faster!

But the dumbest one that's always around and never dies is the one where someone just yells "Run!!!"

1.) I called it my career because i've been doing it for 7 years and plan on doing it for the rest of my life. How do you define a career?

2.) I never said I was fast, but if we looked at the odds here I'm sure i'd be faster than you(but you can't really look at the odds). If you want me to post some of my HONEST PR's then I will and then we can compare.

My fastest 2 mile was 11:56. Can anyone top that?

I had some assbag kid ask me if I had a cigarette. That was pretty original. I showed him my appreciation by pushing him off his bike.

I have had people throw shit at me all the time, probably due to the fact that there are a lot of rednecks where I live.

Also have been hit by a car. Car ran a stop sign and plowed into me. Didn't get hurt too badly since the car was just starting to speed back up, but the lady actually got mad at me. I should have sued her.

Hey! We can do ubbscript here? Here are mine:

Guy in car: HEY COLONEL SANDERES IS LOKING FOR SOME RUBBER CHICKEN LEGS!!"

Sorority: "WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Girl by herself: "You're skinny" She then flashes her breasts.

Much slower teammate in a car during the offseason: "Al, you burnout"

catman wrote:

My fastest 2 mile was 11:56. Can anyone top that?

Catman...ya got me beat. I might be able to run about 17:30 right now. Would you be envious though if I told you my female friend's nickname is Catwoman? I'm not making this up.

Which reminds...if we had some women posting here about insults tossed their way, there'd be a boatload of shamefaced men out there. Comments about their anatomy top the list.

On another vein...the drivers that have caused me the most grief, on the whole, are little white-haired women. They treat the mid-line as if it had teeth and dread moving over two inches.

big letters?

we got a new one yelled at us on the run today "hey its the nike commercial!!"

I've been running for about 18 years and it seems that "Run Forrest Run" isn't that popular anymore. "Fag" is a common remark when running in rural areas, but I've never heard it in a major city. "Faster, faster" is another one that I've heard several times, and this is usually when running something at tempo pace of about 5min/mile. I don't know what it is about some people, but they just have to yell something at a passing runner. You can tell as you approach them and look into their eyes, that they are taxing their brian to try to come up with a clever remark to impress their friends before you get too far past them. But, ultimately, they just yell something stupid. I've also heard "Running is bad for your knees", and this was from someone smoking.