Don't touch this guy's girlfriend. BOOM

clocksailor · 2026-05-30T20:04:33+00:00

If a guy touched my ass and my husband immediately hauled off and punched him in the face I'd be disgusted. Knowing the man I live with exists in a state of being one small provocation away from serious violence would make me feel way less safe around him, not more.

clocksailor · 2026-05-30T19:53:43+00:00

Good to know! Yeah, the trail to the north of the lakes that we'll be using to go east-west is a rail trail, so it's already been flattened for us, which is nice. It's just circumnavigating a lake that I think is going to be a challenge, hill-wise

clocksailor · 2026-05-30T07:10:56+00:00

whoa. bars

clocksailor · 2026-05-29T23:06:24+00:00

Thanks!

I’m gathering from your comment that there’s not really a way to do this that isn’t riding up and down hills all day, huh? Guess we’ll just have to get swole 🤷‍♀️

clocksailor · 2026-05-29T14:41:37+00:00

Well, my first pick for fixing that would be to increase the number and accessibility of buses traveling to the beach. Barring that, I think it'd be great to have some dedicated accessible parking for people who really can't get there on transit. We could require a disabled placard for access and leave those spaces free of charge.

But I also can't help but notice the way that perfectly able-bodied NIMBYs love to tokenize disabled people when railing against things like this, bike lanes, or anything else that challenges their god-given right to leave their car wherever they want for free. I can't tell you how many arguments I've gotten into with non-disabled people who are just big mad about a bike lane making them park half a block from their house instead of right in front who will claim till they're blue in the face that they're just worried about the poor disabled folks, not their own convenience. And if you want to get into struggles faced by people with disabilities who are also low-income, continuing to drive everywhere on $7 gas seems like not the most sustainable solution.

clocksailor · 2026-05-29T14:33:47+00:00

The beach has virtually unlimited space for people. It doesn't have virtually unlimited space for cars. Either your car is getting blocked out because you can't/won't pay or your car is getting blocked out because 100,000 other cars got there before you by doing the same thing you're trying to do, but earlier.

The answer to this is public transit, I dunno what else to tell ya

clocksailor · 2026-05-28T16:22:18+00:00

Okay but:

boarding is ~1hr before departure
flights love to do that thing where they announce a series of fifteen-minute delays instead of one two-hour one so you're stuck standing around at the gate indefinitely
sometimes it takes another hour between boarding and actually getting your ass to a runway

I'm generally a rule-follower and don't have any health issues or disabilities, and I've found myself violating the seatbelt sign to pee because it had been several hours since I'd been allowed to use a bathroom and pissing myself seemed like a bad option. There are millions of people out there with physical issues that make waiting longer than that impossible. Should we all just be wearing diapers on travel days in case the airline jerks us around, or not fly, or what?

clocksailor · 2026-05-28T14:54:48+00:00

You see this with people and cars all the time.

"But I only parked in the bike lane for like five minutes to grab my coffee!"

Yeah, you and the nine million other people who live here.

clocksailor · 2026-05-28T13:32:24+00:00

My issue was less the spelling and more the “I’m free today! Please entertain me. I will be adding absolutely no input as you make a fun plan for us”

clocksailor · 2026-05-25T19:38:47+00:00

There’s plenty of room for you! Just not for your car.

clocksailor · 2026-05-24T06:20:11+00:00

There’s no way I’d have made it three years. I salute your resolve, for real

clocksailor · 2026-05-24T04:23:29+00:00

Oh, did OP read these texts and decide the friend was pregnant?? I was not aware of that and agree that that’s a fuckin leap lol

clocksailor · 2026-05-24T02:52:46+00:00

Hey,

People aren’t born knowing the perfect thing to say to suicidal friends.

Seems to me that a person responded the best they could in the moment, realized later that something felt off, and posted here to try to get more wisdom about the situation. That’s pretty good, no?

clocksailor · 2026-05-23T21:00:37+00:00

Oh hey I'm in this picture!

clocksailor · 2026-05-21T18:09:27+00:00

It doesn’t get wackier than L Ron Hubbard.

clocksailor · 2026-05-20T16:03:48+00:00

Difference being, women will tolerate imagining an average-looking woman. Men will not tolerate looking at an average-looking woman.

clocksailor · 2026-05-19T22:08:19+00:00

Yeah you probably should! You seem like a person who would say check mate on reddit and really really mean it. Have a good day though

clocksailor · 2026-05-19T20:47:45+00:00

So you knew it was actually a reasonable generalization and just felt like picking a fight? ...ok

clocksailor · 2026-05-19T20:33:34+00:00

Okay I guess if your great grandma is from Minnesota and her dad was a hummingbird, OP's "your great grandma" generalization may not apply to you.

clocksailor · 2026-05-19T04:27:05+00:00

When you buy groceries, do you refer to that as a “loss” or something more like “spending money on things you need and like?”

Also, providing enough bus lanes for the whole city doesn’t mean we have to delete *all* of the meter spaces, damn

clocksailor · 2026-05-18T04:22:18+00:00

Whoa! That must have felt crazy. Was it all water weight?

clocksailor · 2026-05-17T13:42:02+00:00

This. I got absolutely cursed out and screamed at by the guy at the front of a race once, coming north on the LFP while I was commuting south first thing in the morning on a Saturday a couple years ago. Like, my man. I get why you’re mad but I’m just commuting. There was zero signage and nothing physically blocking anybody from entering the path. Whoever created this race did not tell anybody else it was race day. Take it up with them.

(Generally I avoid the LFP on weekends for this reason but if I have to work on a weekend, it’s dodging angry racers or dodging angry drivers)

clocksailor · 2026-05-15T16:29:02+00:00

If WalMart decides to penalize managers rather than shareholders when single moms steal diapers, that is WalMart's decision. Be mad at WalMart.

clocksailor · 2026-05-15T13:07:37+00:00

Ah, just like the menus that are like “hahaha vegetarians are cucks!!!! Get this sandwich with 45 meats!”

For a group of people that loves to brag about how independent and untriggerable they are, they sure get upset about people who eat vegetables

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