# Yes, it's time for another round of "Who's the dick?" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 11, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896 "2016-04-11T17:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@EBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EBird)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/41 "2016-04-12T01:22:59Z")
No one is a dick if the lazy dick is ready. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/42 "2016-04-12T01:24:41Z")
I don’t understand what it being Uber has to do with it. Where would a traditional cab have waited? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/43 "2016-04-12T01:36:01Z")
> [@Silophant](#): > > You’re the dick. A bike lane is a traffic lane just as much as the car lane is. You need to find a place to wait that is not blocking any traffic lanes. Yep. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > There was no such place within sight of the pickup location. I do not get to choose the pickup location. That’s not (supposed to be) his problem. Making _your_ problem into a stranger’s problem is a pretty solid indicator of Dick behavior. > [@Merneith](#): > > The Bike Lane is no different than any other lane of traffic. Sometimes bikers have to stop and accommodate pedestrians and people exiting/entering cars or crossing the street. Just because there’s a bike lane present doesn’t mean that other people might not have legitimate business that involves pausing the bike traffic. > > It’s no different if a pedestrian was crossing the street and needed to walk in front of a biker. Or if a taxi was waiting in the middle of the road, traffic behind it would have to pause and pass carefully. All the travelers on the road are responsible for working together to keep traffic flowing safely. A pedestrian who crossed against the signal, in front of traffic, would also be a dick. A taxi driver stopped in the middle of the road, forcing traffic to go _around_ him?? Super dick! These are people doing the _opposite_ of working together to keep traffic flowing safely! All that said, the rider probably should have realized there was no stopping place, and been waiting to jump in. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/44 "2016-04-12T03:31:15Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I don’t understand what it being Uber has to do with it. Where would a traditional cab have waited? They’d be dicks, too. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/45 "2016-04-12T04:52:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > **OP** : would you rather have dealt with the cyclist yelling or calling the cops, resulting in a ticket? > [@DrDeth](#): > > :dubious: > > The cops would laugh their asses off. Even if they didnt, they’d arrive a hour later. This. Also, if the cyclist does this to the wrong person, there could be a very severe reaction. A recent example in Chicago: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJcm2657GwI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJcm2657GwI) The original article: [Cyclist Attacked After Telling Driver To Get Out of Bike Lane (VIDEO) - Austin - Chicago - DNAinfo](https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160303/austin/cyclist-attacked-after-telling-driver-get-out-of-bike-lane-video) Lots more on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/46 "2016-04-12T10:39:31Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I don’t understand what it being Uber has to do with it. Where would a traditional cab have waited? Started the meter running and sat there. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/47 "2016-04-12T12:16:11Z")
If there was room for the bike to go around the Uber, he should have done so without confrontation. People gotta be picked up/dropped off, and it’s the same whether it’s an Uber or a cab or a spouse or a parent or just some guy who has to pick up another guy. That’s just life. There was no reason to make an issue out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/48 "2016-04-12T12:45:59Z")
The biker was a total dick. As Acsenray says; “people gotta be picked up/dropped off.” Just because you’re slightly inconvenienced doesn’t give you the right to be a dick. How about people just stop trying to find ways to be offended and try to be more tolerant. Now if a driver stopped there every day and parked while he at his lunch in his car then you have a complaint; but otherwise there’s no need to be a self pretentious asshole. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/49 "2016-04-12T12:46:06Z")
In the future you should asked if there is safe place to park your car if not tell your client it would be great they were waiting for you . Then tell your client you will only wait 5 minutes for them this might get people be outside waiting for you . I know in Boston Ma. taxies drivers think all Uber drivers are dick! ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/50 "2016-04-12T13:21:44Z")
> [@HeXen](#): > > Wait down the block and make them walk to you or circle back around once they are outside and ready dumbass. I mean it’s common sense. Leave personal insults out of this thread and forum. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/51 "2016-04-12T13:27:38Z")
Everyone came off as an entitled dick. In the biker’s defense he probably can’t go more than a block without someone using his lane for something other than biking, probably reached his breaking point. When I order Uber, I walk to the corner where the car can pull over. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/52 "2016-04-12T13:38:25Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > If there was room for the bike to go around the Uber, he should have done so without confrontation. The OP reported that he blocked the bike lane. > [@Acsenray](#): > > People gotta be picked up/dropped off, and it’s the same whether it’s an Uber or a cab or a spouse or a parent or just some guy who has to pick up another guy. That’s just life. There was no reason to make an issue out of it. You’d feel the same way if you were driving a car, and the OP was stopped and blocking your travel lane? Or if you were walking and the OP was parked across the sidewalk? ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/53 "2016-04-12T13:58:43Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Since cyclist dont use the fucking bike lanes, and instead ride on the sidewalks, I’d say it was the cyclist. Especially as he was rude and yelling. Except this cyclist obviously was using thr fucking bike lane, since he was mad about it being blocked. To everyone claiming that the cyclist should have just happily waited for his lane to clear, in an equivalent situation, if you were on a two lane road with no parking lane, and too much oncoming traffic to pass, and an Uber or whatever was parked in your lane so you couldn’t get by, would you just calmly twiddle your thumbs and wait? I’m not going to believe you if you say yes. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/54 "2016-04-12T14:34:14Z")
> [@Silophant](#): > > Except this cyclist obviously was using thr fucking bike lane, since he was mad about it being blocked. > To everyone claiming that the cyclist should have just happily waited for his lane to clear, in an equivalent situation, if you were on a two lane road with no parking lane, and too much oncoming traffic to pass, and an Uber or whatever was parked in your lane so you couldn’t get by, would you just calmly twiddle your thumbs and wait? I’m not going to believe you if you say yes. There was a lane open wide enough for cars to pass and certainly wide enough for several bike to pass abreast if they wanted to. It wasn’t a particularly busy street (Dayton St near the Kohl Center, for those of you who know Madison), and the rider had plenty of room and plenty of time to get past. I hadn’t considered it before, but he was blocking part of the vehicle lane when he chose to stop next to me and start shouting. He was there for less than a minute. I was there for 3-4 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/55 "2016-04-12T14:57:13Z")
I still think the cyclist was the bigger dick, since he/she could have just moved into the vehicle lane…which he/she had probably done half a dozen times before that point because it was more convenient. I don’t screetch about the stick up my ass to everyone who stops their car over the crosswalk when I’m walking, nor do I take time out of my day to yell at the driver of every delivery truck parked in my lane when I’m driving. I just go around them. Sometimes that takes a minute. As much as I wish it were otherwise, I’m not more important than anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/56 "2016-04-12T15:17:10Z")
The Golden Dick Award goes to the passenger, who could have prevented all this dickery by picking a better pickup location, or being ready and waiting for the ride, but instead was dicking around holding up the whole process. Dick. The Silver Dick Award goes to the cyclist, because while he was understandably pissed that someone was blocking the bike lane, which I’m sure happens way too often, he needs to understand that Life Isn’t Fair and sometimes you need to just pedal along swearing under your breath instead of throwing a temper tantrum at someone. Also he deserves it for wearing those stupid shorts. The Bronze Dick Award goes to Boyo Jim, who really ought to have some kind of contingency plan for when stuff like this happens, which it will, because people are dicks. He probably wears stupid shorts, too. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/57 "2016-04-12T15:40:03Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m not a biker, don’t own a bike, haven’t ridden a bike in at least a decade, and I think the biker was the one most in the right here. But realize, being “the one most in the right” does not exclude one from being the biggest dick in any given setting. Actually, it often encourages Bigus Dickus. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/58 "2016-04-12T16:07:52Z")
I want to provide a clarification on my earlier note based on what I see as a potentially fine line (and a related report I’ve since received). I realize that following the “personal insults” rule seems a bit difficult in this thread given that the OP himself is asking if he was a dick. I think, though, that there’s still a difference between saying (and I am paraphrasing here, of course), “You were acting like a dick in this situation” versus saying “You’re a dumbass.” I think the vast majority of posters in this thread have been doing fine assessing the described circumstance without trying to generally trash the OP, and I’d appreciate it if things continued along that path. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/59 "2016-04-12T18:05:16Z")
> [@Lowdown](#): > > I still think the cyclist was the bigger dick, since he/she could have just moved into the vehicle lane…which he/she had probably done half a dozen times before that point because it was more convenient. > . And maybe said Cyclist has already had to ‘just move into the vehcile’ lane 1/2 dozen times in 3 blocks because drivers think that a bike lane = Free Parking. It might have been an overreaction, but I have been there and I get real short with people whothink that cyclists should just put up with their use of the bike lane as a parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896/60 "2016-04-12T18:21:06Z")
Yeah, I don’t bike, but it must be incredibly frustrating that there is a dedicated bike lane that people treat like it’s the drop off dry cleaning lane, every other block. The OP said he was just going to be there few minutes, and so did the last five guys parked in that lane that the bicyclist encountered. As the saying goes: no one flake thinks it is responsible for the avalanche. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-its-time-for-another-round-of-whos-the-dick/751896.md?page=4)