jl551c
Well-known member
Just curious if any of you have experienced being treated like crap because you're a motorcyclist. Any stories? Here's a couple:
My wife and I rode to a local restaurant. We were wearing leather jackets, carrying helmets and as we walked into the restaurant the hostess gave us a dirty look, turned around and walked off. She didn't return for a few minutes so we left. In retrospect I wish I had insisted on finding a manager to talk to, but instead took the more cowardly route and gave them a scathing review on Yelp.
Another time a buddy and I were riding thru Vermont. We decided to stop at a mom and pop small grocery store and grab a coffee, use the bathroom ect. We walked into the empty store, poured some coffee and went up to the counter to pay. No one was at the counter, so we waited and waited, still no one. Finally this older woman bounces out from behind a soda machine acting all flustered and upset telling us to just take the coffee. I asked for the bathroom key and she lied and told me the bathrooms were out of order. I knew she was lying because I actually drove by there again hours later and saw a mom and daughter exiting the bathroom carrying a key with a big long key fob on it.
Another time I was at an outside restaurant in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate NY. A group from Canada were a couple tables away. They just wouldn't stop looking our way giving us haughty, condescending looks of disapproval. It was really strange and ugly. I responded with my best, friendliest smile I could muster up and waved back. Boy did that piss them off.
I've had a few other occasional experiences like this, mostly at restaurants, sometimes just ugly looks from strangers, but I find that most businesses are happy to have our business and give us no problems. I'm a clean cut, well dressed person and definitely don't fit the Marlon Brando, Wild Ones stereotypical biker mold. Just curious for other's experiences and how you dealt with them.
My wife and I rode to a local restaurant. We were wearing leather jackets, carrying helmets and as we walked into the restaurant the hostess gave us a dirty look, turned around and walked off. She didn't return for a few minutes so we left. In retrospect I wish I had insisted on finding a manager to talk to, but instead took the more cowardly route and gave them a scathing review on Yelp.
Another time a buddy and I were riding thru Vermont. We decided to stop at a mom and pop small grocery store and grab a coffee, use the bathroom ect. We walked into the empty store, poured some coffee and went up to the counter to pay. No one was at the counter, so we waited and waited, still no one. Finally this older woman bounces out from behind a soda machine acting all flustered and upset telling us to just take the coffee. I asked for the bathroom key and she lied and told me the bathrooms were out of order. I knew she was lying because I actually drove by there again hours later and saw a mom and daughter exiting the bathroom carrying a key with a big long key fob on it.
Another time I was at an outside restaurant in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate NY. A group from Canada were a couple tables away. They just wouldn't stop looking our way giving us haughty, condescending looks of disapproval. It was really strange and ugly. I responded with my best, friendliest smile I could muster up and waved back. Boy did that piss them off.
I've had a few other occasional experiences like this, mostly at restaurants, sometimes just ugly looks from strangers, but I find that most businesses are happy to have our business and give us no problems. I'm a clean cut, well dressed person and definitely don't fit the Marlon Brando, Wild Ones stereotypical biker mold. Just curious for other's experiences and how you dealt with them.
