Anatomy of a Heckle

I'm mainly writing this one for Anna Seiler so that she'll remember that although her mom and dad's friends like to have fun, that they're semi-decent people. Well, the papist more so than I, but anyhoo.

After Sundays race and some cheeriing for team mates, I hooked up with the papist, tallgirl and littletallgirl to watch the pro men's race and see how it's really done. we prepared ourselves with some liquid carbohydrates, we went to watch the uphill sandtrap and see the lines and the speed that these folks carry. We cheered and called out our favorite racers names and watched all of them come thru. Then we waited. And we waited a bit more as the last racer made his way thru. The crowd quietly watched him fly thru the trap and as he passed he yelled back at us "WEAK".

That's right. He heckled us. Now I'm not known for holding back anyway but this was a direct challenge. We dove in. Numerous laps went by with different lines tossed out, tho we give tallgirl creative credit for "dude you're giving us too much time to come up with new material" We actually saw his shoulders shake as he laughed. This was our type of guy. But our youngest attendee was worried that we were bullying the rider. I can deal with that, it was important to make sure she saw the difference between good natured heckling and bullying. Mean-spirited we're not....mostly.

So we decided he needed a hand up.
We waited and as he came thru, the papist and I yelled for him, and in he swung








This proved it, this was our kind of racer. I wish I had the picture of the perfect hand-back to Sham-wow. Flawless.

We wanted to make sure that there were no hard feelings. Especially for yelling things like "lap dance coming" as he was getting passed by the leaders. So we brought him a BBC APA, which is known to solve all problems.
turns out his name is Bill and aside from being a really big dude(which would have curtailed the heckling if we'd have seen the size of him first), he's a good-hearted guy racing with the top pros and having a tough weekend. We'll be pulling for Bill in the next stops of the USGP, and doing some serious distance-heckling.





After that, it was Monday morning before I knew it and my car looked like this. I did get some sweet t-shirts and swag. I'll post that later but next up "the dirtiest thing I heard @ USGP"



hi fives to all involved