Rudest thing someone has done to you while running?

Fourteen years old. Running. Someone threw an egg at my from a moving car, when I was running shirtless on a 90 degree evening. Hit me hard enough that it took a few days to get hearing back in my left ear (still isn't right, and that was a LONG time ago).

Was something like an early 70s Cutlass, and this was in Omaha, in the very early 1980s. If this was you, F you.

In high school there was a van that threw trash at some teammates while on distance runs. The worst I've ever experienced personally is people deliberately driving close to the edge of the road so I have to move onto the grass when they pass by, happens maybe 1-2 times per month, even if there isn't a car coming the other way.

Another time I was on the left side of a small back road and a kid and his friends swerve into the other lane (right lane to left lane) behind me to try and scare me. I turned around and maybe jumped a bit. The kid then got lost as I saw him turn around, a mile later into the run and then drive back the other way. Pretty funny.

Someone called me a liberal.

I had hot coffee thrown at me while I was in high school. A few of my teammates have also been hit by cars. Usually dumb people not paying attention and rolling through a right-on-red without actually looking in front of them.

Blah Blah. wrote:

Someone called me a liberal.

Couple years ago on a super hot day i took a water bottle to some trail by my house and stashed it in the bush near the spot where I was starting. Some lady and her daughter saw me doing this and shouted "literbug!". I told them it was my drink and i would be coming back for it then left to start my run. A while later I get back, desperate for my water, and it was gone.....

I live in Annapolis and have to deal with drunk kids in crew cuts yelling stuff out their car windows when I run at night. Had a kid who looked like a plebe yell "Fuvk you" out a passenger side window a few weeks ago. Navy kids are such pussies.

leaning tower of pizza wrote:

Couple years ago on a super hot day i took a water bottle to some trail by my house and stashed it in the bush near the spot where I was starting. Some lady and her daughter saw me doing this and shouted "literbug!". I told them it was my drink and i would be coming back for it then left to start my run. A while later I get back, desperate for my water, and it was gone.....

But was it a liter bottle of water?

Blah Blah. wrote:

Someone called me a liberal.

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Don't take it too hard, anyone could have made that mistake. Most true red blooded conservatives only dare become physically active enough to drive their power scooters to walmart.

I guess it was funny to you .

Work on your writing skills this summer , young lady .

Pretty much the same thing happened with my favorite shirt.

Only other thing that has happened to me was when I almost got clotheslined by a truck. I was running on the left side of the road and I saw it turn out of a driveway a little over a quarter mile up the road so I looked behind me to make sure nothing was coming. At first I didn't know what to expect because it was a teenager with a souped up truck. Sure enough he made sure black smoke was rolling, and He was going 50-55 by the time he passed me. He actually swerved over to make sure he took up the whole left side of the road and at the last second I jumped off the road to avoid getting hit. My shoulder was about 4 inches from being demolished when he flew past.

I was running through a redneck area when some teens hit my chest with a double-pointed tack, launched from a slingshot. Luckily it did not penetrate but I had a tack-shaped bruise for a while.

America is a second world country with third world citizens, confirmed.

Greatest civilisation on earth, my ass.

Runninginthedark wrote:

Today on my long run I was running with traffic and someone drove along side me, rolled down their passenger window, and their passenger blew out a big huff of cigarette smoke into my face and then drove of

One time, a dude threw a slurpee at me. It missed, thankfully. Also - you were running WITH traffic? This seems extremely dangerous and is at odds with what every runner that I know does. I am not scolding you or saying my way is better; I am just genuinely surprised/confused. I didn't know any runners actually did this.

Yell from a passing motorist: "Put a shirt on, FA&&@T!!!!!"

Also - you were running WITH traffic? This seems extremely dangerous and is at odds with what every runner that I know does. I am not scolding you or saying my way is better; I am just genuinely surprised/confused. I didn't know any runners actually did this.

I actually yell at runners to run against traffic. They probably think I'm an idiot, when I'm a runner too.

See idiots running on no shoulder roads at rush hour. Only takes a second for some commuter to look at their phone and clip the person.

jimmy chonga wrote:

Also - you were running WITH traffic? This seems extremely dangerous and is at odds with what every runner that I know does. I am not scolding you or saying my way is better; I am just genuinely surprised/confused. I didn't know any runners actually did this.

I actually yell at runners to run against traffic. They probably think I'm an idiot, when I'm a runner too.

See idiots running on no shoulder roads at rush hour. Only takes a second for some commuter to look at their phone and clip the person.

A biker actually yelled at me yesterday for running against traffic. He was biking with traffic of course. Anyone else ever experience this?

The BEST thing that ever happened occurred yesterday. Yesterday was a scorcher in New Jersey. I'm running through a neighborhood near Haddonfield and an a guy watering his lawn with his hose sees me coming. As I approach he just aims the stream of water up in the air creating a small strip of rain on the road for me to run through. I think he said 'jump in'. So I screeched to a halt, and stood there in that ice cold water for a few seconds. That made my day - and made the last 2 miles feel good. Dude - if you are reading this - THANK YOU!

BEST thing wrote:

The BEST thing that ever happened occurred yesterday. Yesterday was a scorcher in New Jersey. I'm running through a neighborhood near Haddonfield and an a guy watering his lawn with his hose sees me coming. As I approach he just aims the stream of water up in the air creating a small strip of rain on the road for me to run through. I think he said 'jump in'. So I screeched to a halt, and stood there in that ice cold water for a few seconds. That made my day - and made the last 2 miles feel good. Dude - if you are reading this - THANK YOU!

That is awesome. It reminds me of when I met a HS coach form El Paso TX, he said he planned running routes to go past certain people's homes who agreed to stand outside with a hose to cool his runners off. Smart planning on the coach's part.

As for the rudest, someone rolled through a stop sign when I was about to run through the intersection. I had to come to an abrupt stop on a really icy day which caused me to fall. The person laughed at me (I could hear well, window was down because they were smoking) and simply continued to drive away.