WIyamirider
Junior Member
I dealt with a similar situation at my last job. I rode my bike to work pretty much everyday (until it snowed), rain, shine, sweltering heat and below freezing temps. To get to my office, I had to walk through the plant. It never failed, every single day someone had to make a comment "Aren't you hot?", "Why do you wear all that?" "Are you going snowmobiling, hahaha". Everyone from the temp workers to upper management had to make their comments. It got old real fast.
However, the comments stopped real fast after I came back to work after 3 days off....recovering from smacking a deer at 60 mph. I even brought by road rashed gear in to show people what would have happened to me had I not been wearing all my gear.
It was an expensive and painful way to silence the critics, but now when someone asks me "Why do you wear all that?", I can respond with "Because there's a good chance I'd be dead if I hadn't been wearing been wearing all of this. Would you like to see the pictures?".
However, the comments stopped real fast after I came back to work after 3 days off....recovering from smacking a deer at 60 mph. I even brought by road rashed gear in to show people what would have happened to me had I not been wearing all my gear.
It was an expensive and painful way to silence the critics, but now when someone asks me "Why do you wear all that?", I can respond with "Because there's a good chance I'd be dead if I hadn't been wearing been wearing all of this. Would you like to see the pictures?".