[exercise] Dorkiness

[astra_nomer]

So I went for a run kind of late last night because I failed to get up early enough to do it in the morning. I followed my usual 3-ish mile course through our residential neighborhood. There I am, jogging down the main artery into our subdivision, when a SUV full of giddy teenagers drives past me, loudly mocking and hooting at me as they go by.

Now really, WTF?

It's not like it's the first time it's happened. I figure, they see a dumpy, overweight, middle-aged woman puttering along, engaged in what seems to them a completely pointless activity, and they lack any impulse control whatsoever and so they let loose.

My only consolation is that someday, they too will be dumpy, overweight and middle-aged, and we'll see who laughs then.

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Blech.

[lokiect.livejournal.com]

that reminds me of my biking in shorts with the audacity to not have shaved first. People!

I never would have thought of you as dumpy, but I guess to dumb teens in an SUV, I don't know anyone who wouldn't be.

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

Hah, speaking of shaving, it was a good thing it was too dark to see my legs last night!

I remember being a teen and resenting the fact that all adults looked at me with suspicion. But now I'm on the side of the suspicious adults.

[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

(And yeah, astra...you are totally NOT dumpy)

[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

Often obnoxious men will honk and shout when they pass me gardening in the front yard. I have never determined whether it is because they think I am attractive or unattractive, and I don't care. Mostly I just hate them all. I guess the same would work for teens.

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

I've encountered those men while jogging, too. Maybe they're the men who never grew up?

[aaltair.livejournal.com]

Many men fall into this category. Luckily not all.

[remcat.livejournal.com]

With any luck it will be your kids hooting at them! :) :)

This has happened to me to, FWIW. EVen worse? My *friends* honking and waving. Just leave me alone! Don't they know I'm invisible when running in public?

[remcat.livejournal.com]

Meaning to say, it is karmic payback if it's your kids -- not that your kids are likely to grow up to be jerks. Sorry if it came across that way...

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know what you mean! Because you totally look your best after you've run a couple of miles, right? Bad enough running into my neighbors after a run...