Geezer with a Grudge: The Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Apr 18, 2011

The Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Check out the fancy backpedaling.The guy nearest the curb shows some excellent reaction time and moderately good logic. The guy at the other end of the line of bikers and the guy behind the first row quickly recognized a dumb shit in a semi and got the hell out of there. If you look closely, there was a bicyclist who dropped his bike and ran. I think the bike vanished in the truck rubble. What do you want to bet a cell phone was involved in this? If that boy gets another driver's license in his lifetime, civilization as we know it is doomed.

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The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.