My first ever "do you work here"!!

[pudddykat]

@Wolfie it's my personal policy to not argue with or challenge 18 wheelers because they will always win. In fact, I give them space and right of way and don't ride in the blind spots. Easy math: Me small and them big = me smooshed. No thanks. I always look twice for bikes and hope they are smart enough to pay attention on their end too.

[raudf]

@Wolfie it's my personal policy to not argue with or challenge 18 wheelers because they will always win.

"Greater mass equals right of way" is what one of our local traffic reporters would say when a small car would get smooshed after being in a competition with a big-rig for the right of way.

[Argus]

If someone can't see an 18 wheeler, they DEFINITELY won't see a motorcycle.

A while back, I saw a description of a different vehicle that a driver "didn't see": 8 feet wide, 10 feet high, painted fire engine red, and I don't remember how its sound was described.

[greensinestro]

My mistake was the time I was at the Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach dressed in jeans and a Ron Jon t-shirt. I must have had five people ask me if I worked there. Since then, I always make sure I'm wearing anything that does not relate to that place.

[Seanette]

Sounds about like going to Bullseye in a red shirt and tan pants.

[Lovecats]

Sounds about like going to Bullseye in a red shirt and tan pants.

I used to work there and you'd be surprised at the number of people not working there who came in to shop in red and khaki.

[WishfulSpirit]

I don't own a red polo but I do have a red shirt and khaki pants. I'm tempted just to come in and mess with people.

[morgana]

"Greater mass equals right of way" is what one of our local traffic reporters would say when a small car would get smooshed after being in a competition with a big-rig for the right of way.

Old friend of mine used to call that "right of WEIGH."

[Crossbow]

Old friend of mine used to call that "right of WEIGH."

A.K.A.: The Universal Law of Gross Tonnage. "I'm bigger, I win."

[Lace Neil Singer]

Yeah, eventually I'll have to pick up a thick pair of jeans. The ones I've got on are about a year old and still have a fair amount of material to them. I'm too old to go around without HiViz safety gear on, though from what I hear, there's still plenty of folks that will claim they don't see you. I'd like to think I've hit a maturity level that will keep me from being killed on this thing .

The second accident I had on a motorbike, I was wearing high viz. Didn't stop the guy from sending me flying, cuz the accident happened not cuz he couldn't see me, but cuz he was shit at overtaking. I slid down the road with the bike on me, and got away with just a broken hand and two cracked ribs. It was my jacket and trousers that got the scrapes.

Oh yeah, and I've gotten customers mistaking me for staff thing before. Once when I was wearing a pair of motorbike trousers and boots teamed with a Marilyn Manson t-shirt (I'd left my crash helmet, gloves and jacket at the garage where my bike was having its MOT sorted) and this woman customer still thought I was staff at the shop I went to in order to buy magazines and smokes. Maybe we retail drones just give off an aura of retailness or something.