[jeffs99vulcan]

Ya know Zero, I know you were concerned about stereotyping the blue-hairs, so I started trying to remember my worst incident ever... and I did.

We were in a charity ride, the Ride for Dad for Prostate Cancer research. The first half of the ride is an escorted parade-type, the second half a poker run, so you start to get separated. There were 6 of us in it together though, and were cruising along in a pack at 50mph on the outskirts of a town, and were about pass a gas station at speed.

A car pulls out, and I mean pulls out RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, I was in the lead. On the binders, as hard as humanly and mechanically possible... the back wheel locked up and the front wheel barked, but I held it, it was a textbook emergency stop and I was amazed and proud at the same time, and I ended up on the gravel shoulder, running even with his passenger side back door by the time we were at the same speed.

While I pulled back on to the road an slowly got back up to speed, trying to figure out if I broke out into a sweat or pee'd my pants, while my tongue was so swollen I thought I was going to choke, two of the guys I was with gunned it and pulled up beside him, then in front. Two more pulled in tight behind him, the last stayed with me. While I'm the first to admit that may not be the smartest reaction, they did it it make him aware... They said if it had been a young guy they'd have probably forced him over...

Anyway, they said he was about 90. No clue. None. They could tell he had no clue what he'd done, that there was anyone in front of him, that they had boxed him in, that they rode beside his door yelling at him for a few seconds. Nothing. They said he was SO clueless, they just backed off, nothing else to do...

So I'm not stereotyping, just telling my own worst story and who it involved... draw your own conclusion!