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So I've been working on my bike and had to replace the exhaust. For a few weeks now I take the bike around the block to check cables, play, breaks, is everything screwed on tight enough... you know. Well Saturday I'm out, not really working on it or anything just checking it all out, making sure the battery didn't die again from wherever that short is. I go do a lap, come back, park the bike have a conversation with the little old lady that lives downstairs, put some more water in her bird bath for her and throw the helmet on for one last go-around before I pack up the tools for the week.[/font]
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So I come round the bend, and there's a guy walking out into the street. Making eye contact with me. I slow, he keeps approaching. I stop the bike and before I can kill the engine or remove my helmet;[/font]
[font=helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"You keep riding around making all that racket I'll call the cops on you!" then he starts walking away. "Hey, wait." I say taking off the helmet. He's still spouting something, no idea what [/font](the pipes are way loud btw) [font=helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]but his hands are still waving and fingers pointing. "Hey, hold up." I've got my helmet off now and kill the engine. "I've got a question for you." Fucker finally turns around and basically I try to explain that I'm still trying to get the bike to a legal spot where it'll pass inspection. I'm curious if it's only a nuisance when I open it up or even when low-revving. He doesn't give a shit about anything I'm saying and just uses each time I open my mouth to try to chastise me further. He's going on about families on the street, babies sleeping, legal limits on sound. And mind you - I'm still being respectful and trying to actually have a constructive conversation with someone who lives maybe 8 houses down from me. But dick-cheese here just wants to threaten me and well... be a dick. So I apologized a couple times in there when he mentions babies and for the times I really opened it up - but hey testing new exhaust But then he starts walking away still talking shit. I just called him out and said "Look dude. I've already apologized a couple times so now you get to back off, right? We're good now. Right?" He mumbles something else and I wanted to tell him he should really look people in the eye when he's talking to them. [/font]
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I mean really? C'mon man... Who the fuck jumps straight to calling the cops? How about a simple "Hey! Can you please stop making so much fucking noise? I'm trying to be a jerk over here?" Why the hostility, and the passive-aggressive hostility at that? Not to mention, starting a fight and threatening someone you don't know, but that person knows where you live, that doesn't strike me as very smart.[/font]
[font=helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]You really don't want to have to call the cops on me [/font]buddy. I don't either. [font=helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]
Anyway, I'm over the whole thing. I just can't stand people that think they need to jump right into full-on-dick-mode. I ain't asking for hugs and shit. I don't need a fucking card on my birthday just, don't be a dick. It's no that difficult, not that complicated.[/font]