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Indications that your riding group has gotten sick of you...

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So you're beginning to think that your riding group wants to drop you...here are some of the indicators that your days in their pace line are numbered. There might be more...feel free to add.
Quixote
Senior Member in the hearts and minds of an entire counter-culture.

1. Ride leader gives you a "special route map" from the bottom of the pack.
2. Other riders have given you the nickname Stinky.
3. They send you into the convenience store to get water, then disappear.
4. The group pitches-in and buys you a jersey that reads "HIT ME FIRST" on the back.
5. You mysteriously end up with two flats every time you ask someone to watch your bike.
6. Ride leader reports you as a "missing person" before the ride begins.
7. They call the cops every time you take a "natural break".
 
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8. Announce rides to you but no one shows up to those rides.
9. They ride behind you and turn in the opposite direction at the intersection(s).
10. Alert you that they have given up riding and their taking up golf.
11. No one stops at the regular coffee stop but end up at the one just down the road where you are not nor knew they were going to stop at.
12. As you flat they ask if you need anything and you do but no one stops nor hands you the things you need.
13. When you stop for any reason no one else does nor do they wait for you.
14. They just refuse to ride with you and straight up state it.
 
15. The rest of the bunch disappears every time you take a turn on the front
16. Everyone talks loudly about other really good bunch rides that start at around the same time as the one you are doing
17. Everyone yells out "rolling" at red lights then stop anyway as soon as you start to go through