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Old 05-23-2023, 11:30 AM   #36196
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Not really a rant. People are only trying to be polite by offering me a ride, I'm sure, but...

What is it about a middle-aged guy--smile on his face--sporting a nifty straw fedora (if I do say so myself), carrying a laptop bag and a large water bottle, on a beautiful spring morning that would make someone suspect he's not walking on purpose?

It happens quite often (by people I know, just to be clear!). And I've been walking to and from work (weather permitting) for quite a few years! The worst is trying to get them to refrain from speaking until I can get the noise-cancelling earbuds whoahed!

Petty, I know, but there it is.

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Old 05-23-2023, 11:35 AM   #36197
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Old 05-23-2023, 12:41 PM   #36198
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Not really a rant. People are only trying to be polite by offering me a ride, I'm sure, but...

What is it about a middle-aged guy--smile on his face--sporting a nifty straw fedora (if I do say so myself), carrying a laptop bag and a large water bottle, on a beautiful spring morning that would make someone suspect he's not walking on purpose?

It happens quite often (by people I know, just to be clear!). And I've been walking to and from work (weather permitting) for quite a few years! The worst is trying to get them to refrain from speaking until I can get the noise-cancelling earbuds whoahed!

Petty, I know, but there it is.
I can kinda understand the irritation, truly, but OTOH, aren't you grateful that you live somewhere with such good-hearted people?

In my long-ago past, twice, here in good old Scottsdale AZ, I had a car break down on me or give up or whatever--twice. In the SUMMER, when it was like 115-117F outside. I ended up having to walk to a phone (yes, yes, this was pre-cellphone days!). I would have been pathetically grateful if someone had offered me a ride!

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Old 05-23-2023, 01:35 PM   #36199
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Hitch, WERE there any people around to offer a ride, or just empty stretches of desert highway with only the occasional roadrunner and rocket-booted coyote passing by?
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Old 05-23-2023, 05:51 PM   #36202
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Hitch, WERE there any people around to offer a ride, or just empty stretches of desert highway with only the occasional roadrunner and rocket-booted coyote passing by?
Oh, yes, I was, in fact, walking down the main drag--Scottsdale Road, between Indian School and Camelback. I kid thee not. And the icing on the cake?

Whom, to my wondering eyes should drive by, and NOT SEE ME?

Yes.

My husband.

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Old 05-23-2023, 06:09 PM   #36203
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Oh, yes, I was, in fact, walking down the main drag--Scottsdale Road, between Indian School and Camelback. I kid thee not. And the icing on the cake?

Whom, to my wondering eyes should drive by, and NOT SEE ME?

Yes.

My husband.

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And he still lives? Words fail me ...
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Old 05-24-2023, 12:45 AM   #36204
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And he still lives? Words fail me ...
What Mr. Chicken said. Seriously.
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Old 05-24-2023, 01:48 AM   #36205
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What Mr. Chicken said. Seriously.
Oh, yes, lads.

I was a raving LOON when I got home; hot, sweaty, stinking, sweated through a bespoke (!!!) (and, yes, custom-made--they're not the same) silk blouse...yeah, I was not a happy camper. I couldn't believe he'd done it. I know he's focused when he drives, but not to SEE ME, especially when I used my last remaining shreds of get-up-and-go and jumped up and down, trying to make him see me?

God, I was....livid.

And yes, he lives. I mean, a crap-ton of discomfort is not worthy of a lifetime prison sentence. :-)

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I couldn't believe he'd done it. I know he's focused when he drives, but not to SEE ME, especially when I used my last remaining shreds of get-up-and-go and jumped up and down, trying to make him see me?
Perhaps he's so well trained to not look at attractive young ladies as he drives/walks around that you were simply a blur in his periphery!
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Perhaps he's so well trained to not look at attractive young ladies as he drives/walks around that you were simply a blur in his periphery!


But maddening anyway Hitch! I hope he made it up to you.
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Oh, yes, I was, in fact, walking down the main drag--Scottsdale Road, between Indian School and Camelback. I kid thee not. And the icing on the cake?

Whom, to my wondering eyes should drive by, and NOT SEE ME?

Yes.

My husband.

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Why didn't you pull out your phone and call him? That's what I would have done if it was my wife.
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Old 05-24-2023, 05:03 AM   #36209
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Perhaps he's so well trained to not look at attractive young ladies as he drives/walks around that you were simply a blur in his periphery!
Oh, suuuuuuuure.

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It was indeed and he did.

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Why didn't you pull out your phone and call him? That's what I would have done if it was my wife.
Wolfie, dear boy, as I said in my original post, this was long before cellphone days. In fact, I think I made a point of saying and explaining WHY I was "walking" to a phone in my original post, no?

I had the original 'brick' because my business bought one for me, and that was...hell, quite a few years later.

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