"   ... RIDE A BIKE To Get LAID ..."

Love it when I am in a bar, sipping a cold one, and the 'ALL LEATHER'  "PEOPLE", come in.   "Expecting Something"    LLOLOOLOLO

Couple of years ago, I was on my  Yamaha, XT-225, at a gas station.
I was standing their minding my own business, putting in 2 gal of Non-Oxy gas in.
When in came a dozen,  'HOG', riders. (From the local bar across the steet).
All in the 50's, all wearing, Leathers, (that probably cost more than the bikes. Right down to the 'CHAIN', boots)  And all with, 'Dew' rags.    The 'fellow', next to me on the pump said: " What ya doing with that little pip-of a MC.".
I put my gas tank cover on. Walked up to him,  (Belly to Belly), and said: (In a LOUD  Voice)
"I Didn't Know I Needed, YOUR, Fe'n Permission to Buy a Fe'n  Motorcycle".  
The rest of his group, all, laughed.

I went in and paid.   The, 'Hog', riders all paid at the pump,
(for 2-3 gal of gas with their CC's)
When I walked out, the last of them were, 'roaring' out of the gas station!!!!!

When riding down the, 'Big'  State HWY.  (No Super Slabs close),
Always get the,  Down 'V', wave from 90% of the 'Metric' riders.
20%, from the, 'Harley', Riders.  and .001%  from the 'Crotch Rockets', riders.

A While after that, I went to a, 'Party', to honor a friend, who had just passed, (Agent Orange).  Went their with the  'Little'  XT-225.  Their were 30,000.00 - 40,000.00   DELUXE   TOT-LAY Custom bikes their.
(Assume  Eye-Candy).  
Not a WORD was spoken, about, what one came their with !!!!!!

To ETO,  and YMMV.
(Each to Own - Your Millage may very)
As said many times , by very experienced people, on this forum !

Gust gotta say:   "... Getting Laid, cause you got a MC..."
Talk about:   "Mid Life Crises"  

MnSpring wrote on 06/22/14 at 15:51:37:


Hello MNSpring, whoever you are...  

Allow me to reply to your post:

Your "Freedom to choose" stop exactly where your  "The Freedom not to be hurt" starts.
Do you wear shoes when you go out? Really? Why?
I see no prickly thorn bushes littering your streets... what's the point of wasting good money on shoes? Foot protection, maybe ?
No gov't law forcing you to wear shoes.. so why make such a fuss on "Liberty" when there is a law expecting you to wear "head protection" ?

Let me tell you why: because passing a law and enforcing it will cost YOU, the TAXPAYER, less money than it would to pay for YOUR rehabilitation just in case you were to become a vegetable on wheels...
...and I don't care what you think of yourself, how high your self-esteem, the day a drunk/high driver slams into you, you might well think "well, there goes my head..."
...not to mention the uninsured lil'ol'lady from across the street...

At the "ripe old age" of 54, I have been hit enough times and have banged my head more than enough... and regularly got up and slipped off my helmet and told off the other driver...
...not once was I hospitalized - although I did hit my head against the kerb or the pavement every single time.

What does this tell me?
Ancient adage "Experience is the sum of all the times things went wrong and you learned a lesson"
My lessond learned is that you need a helmet just as much as you need shoes for walking.

May I quote from your post:

Quote:




"Nobody can pass a law saying I must drive with my eyes open"
Yes, they can.
It's the Neurology Ward from your local hospital.
They have nice quiet rooms for you to rest and nice friendly staff with elegant white frocks...
You can talk to the voices in your head for as long as you wish.
Eyes open, eyes closed, Homer Simpson style too...

I dare any Forum member to claim they are perfectly at ease with a lunatic claiming it is his constitutional right to drive through the neighborhood with their eyes closed.
What about the children's safety ???  
Jeez... it is my constitutional right to pepper spray that driver, right? After all, what could you care, your eyes are shut, right ?

Last, my comment on your very poor rhetorical question "What does, Freedom, mean in Italy?"

Let me tell you what Freedom really means.

Freedom means my son can go out and enjoy a pizza with his friends downtown and be safely back at midnight, on public transport, without the fear of being robbed at knifepoint.
(Last night)

Freedom means my wife can do her rounds (she's a family physician) after dark in the winter (that means after 5p.m.) without the fear of being beaten and raped.

Freedom means I can go out to the movies downtown with my family, have a burger at the Hard Rock Cafe and walk back to the car without the fear of meeting the local neighborhood gang (there isn't one)
and without the fear of finding my car stolen or even the window smashed.

Freedom means I have no fear for that odd noise coming from the living room at 3 a.m., because burglary rates and petty crime in Italy are eons better than in the US.

Freedom means we do not have road rage drive-by shootings.

Freedom means I can go to my doctor or to hospital for treatment regardless of my social position or how well I earn, because the Constitution says I am entitled to good health and proper medical treatment.

Freedom means I do not have to sport a foreign flag when I go out to a foreign Country as a tourist, Italy has not started a war since 1939...
...nor do we support puppet governments which are sooo popular with the locals.
I do not have to "pretend I'm somebody else" and ... nobody hates the "Italian infidel".

Freedom means that WE are not afraid of ourselves because our military missions overseas open schools and hospitals, not jailhouses.

We don't create problems, we solve them.
We don't harrass the local population, we help them.
OUR flag is synonimous to "safe haven".
We don't need private contractors to do the dirty work.


Freedom means that when our veterans return home they are NOT in fear of losing their job, because we don't fire our veterans, we make the most of them as veterans training the younger soldiers.

Italy boasts among the lowest casualty rates in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and in Iraq, as long as we were there.
Certainly not because we are in "low intensity" areas, but because we evidently have good negotiation skills and [b]we keep our word.

Any time you wish to come and visit, do not worry with your personal safety.
You are safer here, walking the streets at night, than you are in broad daylight walking the halls of your local high school.

Your call.

Mpescatori.  Said:
... Let me tell you why: because passing a law and enforcing it will cost YOU, the TAXPAYER, less money than it would to pay for YOUR rehabilitation just in case you were to become a vegetable on wheels...

Again you completely missed the point.  And the above statement, you made, tells it all.  
It is clear, that you are so used to living in a, 'nanny' country, that you think it is Normal, and Expected for YOU, to pay for someone else.
Or, perhaps, it is because you have been, TOLD you MUST, be responsible, for someone else.

You also said, that I said: "Nobody can pass a law saying I must drive with my eyes open"  
Well I didn't. And people that actually, read the posts, know that.

Oh, do you spend a lot of time in Sicily?
Last time I was in Italy, I wanted to go their, and was TOLD,  BY the Natives,   Over and over again.   "Only go their, if you never want to be seen again".

Well, one could just go to certain areas in the US as well. Same thing !

So, You just do, what you are,  'TOLD',  to do.
I'll do what I, 'CHOOSE"  to do.

Classy move mpes.... Picking out minor grammatical errors and avoiding the topic.

Bottom line, protect your overly inflated melon however you want, but give others the leeway to decide for themselves.

If you're happy the way you live, fine. If you aren't, try to improve it.

Funny how you all complain of "a Nanny State" and then assume you can teach... bully the rest of the world with your own version of "Democracy".

"The Fast Show".

Look it up, it's in English.

To:  Maurizio Pescatori, Esq.

OK,  Last post on this subject for me.
Not worth the effort to spend the time, ’Splaining’ something,
(Splaining, is NOT proper English, it is a reference to a  popular US, 60’s TV show)

Kinna reminds me of the statement:
 “Never mind the facts, my mind is made up”    !!!

(I’ll do the last one first)
 Your Reference to Baseball: I, personally think, Baseball is Boring.
But if you think Baseball is great, and know all the States/Players/Ect.
GREAT.   Wonderful.   That is YOUR thing, not mine.
And YOU can do WHAT  YOU want !

(I also, don’t care for, Soccer, Golf, or Cricket)
All tremendously Popular things.
But if you do, Great !  I am NOT going to, TELL  YOU,  what to do!

Next. Is not ’Sicily’ a part of Italy ?
Would it not be the same If I said:
“Talking to a native, about Hawaii”
could one then say, Oh, That is NOT part of the USA?
Also, When I visited, I was on foot, on my own, I did NOT,
have a ‘guided Tour’, with all the amenities.
  And I really do not understand, What, a person named, ‘Al Capone’,
(where he was born, and what language he spoke),
has ANYTHING to do with this conversation.
(What exactly were YOU conferring on that information?)

Reference to spelling:
Nope, am NOT writing a book. Did NOT pay some to, ‘proof’, the grammar.      My Apologies !!!!

Next, ‘Eyes Closed’.
Nope, Re read, and reread again. Even with my incredible,
lack of knowledge about spelling and grammar,
It  STILL Does NOT say, what you said it does!

And finally the, ‘Kid’, reference.
In lew to that, I am older than you.
(According to your reference, of how old you are)
But, just to be fair,  I  AM,  younger than most people my age !

Anyway, to the point.
 Which is the,  CHOICE, to do a helmet or not.
If you have ridden a MC for 100,000 miles,
with a dew rag, shorts and sandals.
Of a FF and Leather, and heavy boots.

If you have experienced a event,
to give credence to, one way or the other.

I don’t Care, that is,   YOUR,   Choice,    Not mine.  

I will NOT tell YOU, what to do.  Do Not tell ME what to do.
I,  will make the choice,  NOT  you !

So, now it is time,  for,  YOUR,  last word   !!!!!

Nothing is free. You pay for medical. Tax on tax.
One problem is that we ARE each able to cost our neighbors by getting injured. When you have a vested interest in my life,suddenly you think you should be able to tell me what I can do. Typing on this is a great pain. So,I'm not able to explain in-depth.

Hi, Paraquat, I take your point, but it's not necessarily about skydiving.

You mind your own business, behave, live by the rules, and live a lifestyle you can afford...

OK, fine, so do I. It's calle "good husbandry".

Then comes one and drives into you. Uninsured. Lives on unemployment and all that. Won't pay you a dime because he's flat broke. "At least in jail it's one warm bed and 3 meals/day"...

Your insurance policy will be happy to see you on a luxury wheelchair for the rest of your life, pity you wouldn't pay that little extra for "bad luck clause"
so they won't pay your medical flight to Boston to be operated by that Nobel-prize winner neurosurgeon...

Or your newborn granddaughter is diagnosed a heart malformation which definitely requires that $750,000 operation.

You know what I mean.

We all chip in our little bit, but people do get treatment. It's the price you pay for living in a society, as opposed to a conglomerate of reciprocally unconnected individuals.

My son had a slight malformation of the palate which caused his lower teeth to shut overlapping his upper teeth - the opposite of what it's supposed to be.
Imagine a 3 y.o. kid with a bulldog smile
We went to the Orthodontist in hospital, 7 (seven!) years with progressive braces, he would qualify as a teenage supermodel now  

How much did I pay ? €50 / visit, for the visit - braces were on the system.