A Note For Douchebags…

Apr 10, 2009 | No Comments | @andrewmarcec

When the weather gets warm, and snow is something of the past, I like to think of myself as something of a runner.  I’m a seasonal runner though, only running spring-fall…cold and I do not mix well.

That being said, I’ve started my daily running once I get home from work.  While I’m either traversing broken pavement, or running quickly past broken fences that barely keep the snarling dogs that are on the other side at bay; running in the outskirts of downtown Chicago can be quite a task.  So it is incredibly frustrating when people find it funny to yell things at me while I run.

Now, this is nothing new, I know that people used to do the same thing to my dad when he would go running on country roads in the 70′s.  Screamers beware, runners don’t take shit.  Remember we are pseudo-masochists, who torture our joints by repeatedly pounding them against pavement solely for the fact that we will get a “runners high” from it.  So when people yell things at us like “loser”, or “run faster faggot”, realize that if you slow your car down…the repercussions will not be to your liking.

I bring this up because last night I was on the last stretch of my 3.5 mile run.  As I let the metal music that I listen to to keep me running at a brisk pace fill my ears and give me that second wind, a car drove by honking its horn and a man hung out the window yelling some obscinity at me.  Now, he’s lucky I keep my music loud and didn’t hear what he said, however I felt very inclined to pick up one of the rocks nearby and chuck it at his car.

This has happened to me several times in the past, and I used to do a simple gesture like flipping the bird, or throwing rocks at the car…hoping they would stop so I could give them a piece of my mind.  When I would do this though, the people who shouted at me in the first place would become incredbily pissed.  What I noticed was astounding.

The people who are shouting and yelling these comments from their speeding cars are exactly what you would expect them to be.  Outspoken, overweight people, who would forget their name if you told them you would gladly buy them a cheeseburger.  Or, they are your hopeless people who have no idea where they will sleep tonight.  These people are scraping the bottom of the barrell.  I mean to yell insults at a person who is trying to better themselves just goes to show how weak and sad they really are.

So let’s turn the tables shall we?  I walk into a McDonalds restaurant and see several overweight people gorging themselves on Big Macs.  These are also the people that have just yelled at me.  Do I walk up to their table and call them “fat asses” or insult them on how classy they look with their guts hanging over AND under the table?  No, you keep your mouth shut, order your food and leave…well at least that’s what a runner would do.

Just another sensless rant.

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