Today, the girl who likes me incredibly much asked me if she could come for a ride with me on my motorcycle. Normally this isn't a problem as I take lots of people out for rides for fun, but this time I had no choice but to tell her she couldn't because she's just too heavy for it. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, the girl of my dreams asked me if I wanted to go biking with her. "Just the two of us," she said. I had to turn her down because I'm 17 years old and never learned how to ride a bike. FML
Today, my boyfriend and I were driving around town in his car. To my surprise he took me out to lunch. As we were leaving, a girl walks up and asks if he had room for one more for a ride, sadly he only has two seats in his car. Guess who had to walk! FML
Today, I pulled my motorcycle into a wheelie when my crush drove by. She was the one who drove me to the hospital when I went over backward. FML
Today, I took off the training wheels of my niece's bike. I tried to show her how to ride it, but she told me to get off because I needed a "fat girl's bike." FML
Today, my girlfriend was driving me to her house against my will when I said, "Sometimes it's annoying that you always decide where we go because you drive." She replied, "Yeah, I wish I could be more of the girl in this relationship." FML
Today, the girl I like was panicking because her car broke down, so I offered her a lift to wherever she needed to be. I drove her to her boyfriend's house. She asked me to drive her home in the morning. FML
Today, I agreed to go on a bike ride with my boss, even though I think he's crazy. We rode for a few miles, then he decided it was time to merge onto the freeway. FML
Today, I was cuddling with the girl I've been seeing for the past few months. She was saying how much she liked me and how much I meant to her. Reciprocating those feelings, I asked her to be my girlfriend. It was a HARD no for her. Then she drove me an hour and a half home. FML
Today, I watched my fiancé ride off on my motorcycle with another girl. FML
Today, my friend and I offered a hot girl a lift home from campus. I was sitting in the passenger seat and she climbed in behind me. As I adjusted my seat forward to give her more leg room, my friend pulled off - slamming my seat back into her legs. FML
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Swandive235 27
That's the worst dude. I hope you let her down softly.
sk8rdud3 24
Dang, that sucks OP. Hopefully she understands
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steam_engenius 21
As a previously morbidly obese woman, I personally would have been more offended by being lied to. if she's so sensitive that she's offended by physics, then that is unfortunately on her. But just because she's large doesn't mean she's stupid. We can tell when someone is lying, and more often than not, people are discriminatory about weight, so that would have been worse.
Mightytall 35
Dude, modern bikes (yes also crotch rockets and enduros) usually allow for around 200kg payload - that is around 440lbs for the not so metrically inclined among you - so that two people with proper protective gear can ride safely. So read the tech specs of your bike again and do the math once more. Or do you just not like the girl?
annalily5 28
I'll leave the weight distribution issues to those who actually ride, but also, 400lbs is pretty easy to hit. Assuming OP is not overweight he could still be about 180-210lbs (which is around the weight range for most healthy guys I know), that only leaves about 220lbs, and if this girl is on the much larger size, she could easily be about 250-290lbs. Add heavy protective gear, and that easily goes over the limit.
Shade1982 21
@55: It isn't just about weight support in general. It is also about weight distribution. For most bikes, the gravitational point needs to be around the center between the front and rear wheels, forming a triangle. Having someone who is much heavier than you are sitting behind you would really shift the gravitational point backwards, which could make it dangerous. The second point would be a lot of people don't know how to 'lean' on a bike in corners. For people who have no experience riding bikes, it usually feels sort of unnatural to lean with the corner and they try to lean the other way. If you are both about the same weight, you can compensate, but if your passenger is twice your weight for example you might not even make it through your corner :P.
quibz90 12
Oh thats a tough one....
Brandon1000 10
It's her own fault for being so fat
CoupeDeAce 6
Sometimes scientific fact trumps a person's feelings.
annalily5 28
It sucks that weight is such a taboo topic. It plays into a lot of physical factors of life, yet trying to point out the facts, whether it's safety on a bike ride or a much larger friend asking to borrow clothing, makes the person pointing these out feel/seem rude.
queerdragon 20
I have no issue with someone making a very logical statement about weight. However, in a lot of ways, there are politer terms to use to tell someone that you cannot give them a ride, loan them clothes, or even date them. I think in this case, Op was right to tell her that the weight would be wrong. As long as he did it politely, I am sure the girl wouldn't be too crushed. It isn't like she is blind to how much she weighs. It might be worse because she likes him.
Shamandalie89 32
So what if she gets offended? That can be her wakeup call and maybe then she'll do something about being overweight, especially if it's coming from someone she really likes (OP). I think it's a better solution than if he just lied to her face. It's not like he made fun of her or anything, he was just being cautious.
Redgy22 26
I see really heavy/ morbidly obese people riding motorcycles all the time. Is it the type of bike you have? Or are you just not comfortable with the extra weight in board? Not judging, both are valid reasons. Just curious. It takes practice getting use to a second person to begin with.
0mysteriousman0 22
I've got the same rule... If she's too big to ride... She's too big to ride...
myshinynose 11
It's great that so many people are becoming body positive, but the unfortunate fact is that some things have a weight limit. I hope she understood, OP. I would suggest making it up to her in some way but if you don't feel the same way about her that might just hurt her more in the long term :/ That's a rough and awkward situation to be in.