What The...

[Beemer]

I get it all the time, but it's more of a "you're a woman - do YOU ride a motorbike?" The guys in the petrol stations are usually pretty cool, most of them are really interested in the bike so I don't think I've ever had any problems there.

The supermarket is one of those places where I often get asked "do you ride a bike?" but I suppose it's better than "what kind of bike does your boyfriend ride?"

I think most people do the dumb repeat what you've said word for word bit because they are too thick to think of anything intelligent to say!

[Big Dave]

I Just hate stupid people
They should just have to wear a sign that says "I'm Stupid!"
That way you wouldn't rely on them, would yah?
You wouldn't ask them anything, "Excuse me? Oh! Never mind, I didn't
see your sign."

It's Like before my wife and I moved from Texas to California, our
house was full of boxes, there's a U-Haul truck in our drive-way
My friend comes over and asks,
"Hey, you movin?"
"Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week, just to see how
many boxes it takes"
Here's your sign

Travis Trittchorus)

Why can't they get the picture
Why don't they understand
We're not dealing with the planet of apes
We're talkin' 'bout the modern man
So you people with them itsy, bitsy, tinsy, wentsy, tiny minds
Here's Your Sign
Here's Your Sign

Bill Engvall:

A couple of months ago, I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled
his boat into the dock. I lifted this big ol' stringer of bass, this idiot on
the dock goes;
"You catch all them fish?"
"Nope. Talked em into givin' up"
Here's Your Sign

I was out in the front yard, with my boy the other day and he was
playing with his little friend, and he hit his friend, and I went up to him
and said,
"Hey! *smack* We don't hit"
He looked at me like...
"Here's your sign dad"

Travis Tritt: (chorus)

Why can't they get the picture
Why don't they understand
We're not dealing with the planet of apes
We're talkin' 'bout the modern man
So you people with them itsy, bitsy, tinsy, wentsy, tiny minds
Here's Your Sign
Here's Your Sign

Bill Engvall:

I was watching one of those animal shows on the discover channel
There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. There's only one way to
test that.
"Alright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on. looks gooood. They want you to
jump in this pool of sharks, and you tell us it hurts when they
bite you"
"Well Alright, hold my sign, I don't wanna lose it."

Travis Tritt: (chorus)

Why can't they get the picture
Why don't they understand
We're not dealing with the planet of apes
We're talkin' 'bout the modern man
So you people with them itsy, bitsy, tinsy, wentsy, tiny minds
Here's Your Sign
Here's Your Sign

Bill Engvall:

Last summer I was on my way home, I was driving around, I had a
flat tire, I pulled my truck into those side-of-the-road gas stations, the
attendent walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear to
God he went,
"Tire go flat?"
I couldn't resist.
I said "Nope, no- I was driving around and all of a sudden the
other 3 just swelled right up on me"
Here's Your Sign

Travis Tritt: (chorus)

Why can't they get the picture
Why don't they understand
We're not dealing with the planet of apes
We're talkin' 'bout the modern man
So you people with them itsy, bitsy, tinsy, wentsy, tiny minds
People with them little bitty, teny, weeny, tiny minds
Here's Your Sign

Bill Engvall:

We were trying to sell our car about a year ago, guy comes over to the
house, drove the car round for about 45 minutes. We get back to the
house, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust
pipe. He goes,
"Damn that's hot!"

..........

[Lord Derosso]

[QUOTE=apteryx_haasti]I stopped in a a petrol station on my way home not too long ago. Put the $8 of petrol in that I needed, walk in to pay wearing my helmet, jacket, gloves. Say to the man behind the counter "Pump 4" and he says to me...."The motorbike?"....


I am amazed you were allowed in the store. I used to do sole charge and anyone wearing helments were promptly told to piss off outside and remove them. For security reasons of course. I do it as a matter of courtsy whenever I go into any store. Hence the little red signs outside most garage doors.

[Lord Derosso]

Though I also have to say that if riders wanted to steal from petrol stations then they dont have to go inside anymore. Gas is going to hit $2 a litre before long..........all the rave now I hear, at least with filling up cars, and using fake number plates. Increased petrol theft four fold recently??

[Zed]

...all the rave now I hear, at least with filling up cars, and using fake number plates. Increased petrol theft four fold recently??

Yep, more justification to bring in a coming 'police state'.

[sunhuntin]

Yeah i get it all the time... Walk into petrol station, stop outside the door to remove helmet and observe the attendant checking out my bike...
Walk up and he asks me: Which pump? Ummmmmm

Just as an aside is it ok to walk into a petrol station at night with a helmet still on??? Cos i am just too lazy sometimes to take it off.

i dont mind bikers wearing their lids in...i actually prefer it, cos it means then they wont be outside getting their gear sorted and therefore can get back on the road faster. just saw the "at night bit" added...yeh, at night i think lid off would be a good idea. just makes the attendant feel safer. i only fill at sites where the staff know
me, so im free from that
some places have a no lid inside rule, but ive never ever encoutered one thats asked me to take it off. [open faced lid, so may make a difference] i take my gloves off and my sunglasses and leave them with the bike.
i always wear mine in unless im making an extended stop [getting directions or loo] after ive filled the bike, i make a note of pump number or amount and then move the bike to the door.
i also clarify each customers purchase so i dont grab the wrong one. with scooters it easy enough, but some motorbikes take as much as a car, and if your bike is on the other side of the forecourt and i cant see, i dont know.

the customers i love at work are the ones with gas bottles

me "which bottles yours?" [pointing a row of 10 grey 9kg bottles]
them "the grey one"

or "which car is yours?"
them "the *insert car name here*"
me "so the red one over there then??"

seriously, just cos i work at a gas station doesnt mean i know what each car make is. unless i can see the name on the ass end, i wouldnt know a ford from a mini!
same with gas bottles...i dont have time to make a note of who drops each bottle off. even filling them, i get so many that i just fill it and move it out of my way. if the customer doesnt know what their own bottle looks like [and sooo many dont!!] aint my problem.

[Fatjim]

Just as an aside is it ok to walk into a petrol station at night with a helmet still on??? Cos i am just too lazy sometimes to take it off.

If I've already pumped my gas then there's not much they can insist on. If you want my money then I comes as I am.

I can do this because I don't live in the hell hole called Auckland, which is going through yet another crime wave at the moment resulting in station owners putting their pumps on prepayed 24/7.

[Big Dave]

I can do this because I don't live in the hell hole called Auckland,

Neither do I. I live in a quite nice city called Auckland.
I did however spend a week in upper hut one afternoon.

[limbimtimwim]

nah....just fuckin wif ya....last time I asked if I could ride one....I got a big....NO!!! [aye skelstar ya lil tit!!!] so was so offended I havn't asked again!

Remember riding your NZ250? Just like that, only more vibes and a lower top speed. You didn't miss out on much.

Kinda on topic; I had a petrol station attendant ask me on Thursday
Him: Why don't bikies fall off when they go around corners?
Me: ..Because we are holding onto the handlebars..?

[imdying]

I am amazed you were allowed in the store. I used to do sole charge and anyone wearing helments were promptly told to piss off outside and remove them. For security reasons of course. I do it as a matter of courtsy whenever I go into any store. Hence the little red signs outside most garage doors.

That's why I go to the same station when I can.. they know me. Mind you, I'll try it on at any servo (haven't actually been stopped yet). My standard tactic is to get my wallet out before hand and have it plainly visibly. Mind you, I could be just as easily be going to hand them the wallet and go 'fill her up'

[slimyxylofone]

I think many of you are being a bit harsh by saying people are flat out stupid for asking quite obvious questions. It's obvious that we ride a bike but asking "do you ride?" is really not intended to ask exactly that, it's more a way of just starting a conversation or getting more information about our riding.

People need some way of introducing themselves and what they want to talk about, and often the obvious question is the easiest way.

It helps to think about what the person is trying to achieve by asking that "dumb" question, namely they usually want to find out more about you and want to start a conversation.

I've often asked obvious questions in order to initiate a conversation with someone.

Also to the lawn mower, I'd bet that you were the idiot in that instance because the woman was likely just trying to initiate a conversation so she could give you some business! I'd ask the same question in that case and I too would walk away thinking you were a complete jerk who wouldn't be getting my money. I guess if you don't realise the subtleties of human conversation then you lose out.

Edit to note that while I think this applies for a lot of "dumb" questions, there are still some simply stupid people out there who deserve the scorn of this thread.

[limbimtimwim]

Funny you mention that. Last night I got on a train I don't use very often and asked a person already seated if I had the correct train for a certain line.

One second after I had asked the question, I knew it to be stupid. The Johnsonville line trains are peculiar to that line. This train was only going to go to Johsonville. One second after that, I was thinking about this thread.

It may have had something to do with her being quite pretty .

[HONKEEE]

I Just hate stupid people
They should just have to wear a sign that says "I'm Stupid!"
That way you wouldn't rely on them, would yah?
You wouldn't ask them anything, "Excuse me? Oh! Never mind, I didn't
see your sign."

It's Like before my wife and I moved from Texas to California, our
house was full of boxes, there's a U-Haul truck in our drive-way
My friend comes over and asks,
"Hey, you movin?"
"Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week, just to see how
many boxes it takes"
Here's your sign

Travis Trittchorus)

Why can't they get the picture
Why don't they understand
We're not dealing with the planet of apes
We're talkin' 'bout the modern man
So you people with them itsy, bitsy, tinsy, wentsy, tiny minds
Here's Your Sign
Here's Your Sign

Bill Engvall:

A couple of months ago, I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled
his boat into the dock. I lifted this big ol' stringer of bass, this idiot on
the dock goes;
"You catch all them fish?"
"Nope. Talked em into givin' up"
Here's Your Sign

I was out in the front yard, with my boy the other day and he was
playing with his little friend, and he hit his friend, and I went up to him
and said,
"Hey! *smack* We don't hit"
He looked at me like...
"Here's your sign dad"

Travis Tritt: (chorus)

Why can't they get the picture
Why don't they understand
We're not dealing with the planet of apes
We're talkin' 'bout the modern man
So you people with them itsy, bitsy, tinsy, wentsy, tiny minds
Here's Your Sign
Here's Your Sign

Bill Engvall:

I was watching one of those animal shows on the discover channel
There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. There's only one way to
test that.
"Alright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on. looks gooood. They want you to
jump in this pool of sharks, and you tell us it hurts when they
bite you"
"Well Alright, hold my sign, I don't wanna lose it."

Travis Tritt: (chorus)

Why can't they get the picture
Why don't they understand
We're not dealing with the planet of apes
We're talkin' 'bout the modern man
So you people with them itsy, bitsy, tinsy, wentsy, tiny minds
Here's Your Sign
Here's Your Sign

Bill Engvall:

Last summer I was on my way home, I was driving around, I had a
flat tire, I pulled my truck into those side-of-the-road gas stations, the
attendent walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear to
God he went,
"Tire go flat?"
I couldn't resist.
I said "Nope, no- I was driving around and all of a sudden the
other 3 just swelled right up on me"
Here's Your Sign

Travis Tritt: (chorus)

Why can't they get the picture
Why don't they understand
We're not dealing with the planet of apes
We're talkin' 'bout the modern man
So you people with them itsy, bitsy, tinsy, wentsy, tiny minds
People with them little bitty, teny, weeny, tiny minds
Here's Your Sign

Bill Engvall:

We were trying to sell our car about a year ago, guy comes over to the
house, drove the car round for about 45 minutes. We get back to the
house, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust
pipe. He goes,
"Damn that's hot!"

..........

I pull up behind a trucker
his load hit an over pass bridge
he was stuck
i waited with him for a tow
cop pulls up behind us and says
"you stuck under that bridge?"
driver goes
"na, just delivering it down the road and ran out of gas."
heres your sign.

[HONKEEE]

[QUOTE=Lord Derosso]

I stopped in a a petrol station on my way home not too long ago. Put the $8 of petrol in that I needed, walk in to pay wearing my helmet, jacket, gloves. Say to the man behind the counter "Pump 4" and he says to me...."The motorbike?"....


I am amazed you were allowed in the store. I used to do sole charge and anyone wearing helments were promptly told to piss off outside and remove them. For security reasons of course. I do it as a matter of courtsy whenever I go into any store. Hence the little red signs outside most garage doors.

use ya fuckin head!!!! if you ask them to take it off for security reasons, the ones who are wearing them to hide face aint gonna take it off are they.
stupid people need to wear signs alright.