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From: libes@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Don Libes)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: snowballs
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Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 10:55:28 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 20 10:55:28 1985
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Riding after our first decent snowfall, I got hit with some snowballs.
Granted, that they are not that bad (I suppose I'd rather be a snowball target
than a dog's target) they were still annoying, especially the one that was
thrown at me from a passing car.

I did have a little fun at one point, when just as I came to a stop in front
of one house to shift clothing I got hit.  As I looked up at where it had come
from I saw a figure scurry around the back.  

With the dark face mask, shades over the eyes and no exposed skin anywhere, I
figured I looked like the guy from those horror flicks who stalks everyone in
the house and murders them gruesomely.  So I walked around the house banging
on this and that as if I was trying to get in, walked into the garage and made
some more noise.  He probably thought I had a hand axe in my handlebar bag.
What fun!

Usually I try to encourage good attitudes about cyclists, but I hope I
generated at least one nightmare today.  (Forgive me if he ends up the type
that runs them off the road with his car.)

Don Libes	{seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!libes