Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
I felt compelled, for a number of reasons, to take the sidecar rig to the opening night of SketchFest tonight. Mostly, I had to carry a big heavy projector which wouldn't have fit happily on the Ninja.
I came out at the end of the night to head home, and what do I see but someone back into the space ahead of the rig. I don't give it a second thought until I get closer, and see that this car has gotten really quite close to the rig. Wait, he's still inching backward... And now the hack is bobbling back and forth in that uneasy shimmy every vehicle undergoes when another one taps it while trying to parallel park.
I put on my best angry voice and yelled "HEY!" loud enough to wake the dead. I got up to the car window, and this little face looked out at me, and said, "sorry about that." He got out of the car, and I found myself looking at what appeared to be a 13 year old asian kid. His car was a blue, late model Honda Accord, with blue tribal-style flame decals along the side. Great. And his car was still resting wearily on the sidecar's nose.
It didn't seem worth the effort of tirading at him, so I just told him to let me out and I'd be leaving shortly. He made some comment about how this was the fourth time he'd had to do this. "What, run into my sidecar?" I thought to myself.
He was trying to park a 17 foot long vehicle in a 10 foot long space.
I just got my helmet on and got out of there. I could see that his car had knocked a small chip of paint off the sidecar, but it had many cousins from road debris or flying rocks or whatever. Not worth the bother of intimidating him into giving me his insurance info (assuming he had any -- it seems anyone who gets into any kind of automotive altercation has a 95% chance of being uninsured).
Hey, thanks for a great night, kid! Learn to park, or get a smaller car, or something.
If it had been a motorcycle, he would have knocked it over, and then we would have been in angry-Ian land (fortunately, there was a cop less than a block away, and it would have been very satisfying to drag him into it).
Posted at 23:52 permanent link category: /motorcycle
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater