Lesson Learned, 07-14-2013

500 Monguls are having a meeting this weekend staying at the Palm Springs Hilton Hotel.  I thought it would make a good Desert Roadkill blog post to have a photo of some of them with their bikes showing their colors.  What I failed to take into account was how I may appear to them while dressed in my road cycling garb straddling my road bicycle with its rainbow colored yarn bomb on the top tube ( http://desertroadkill.blogspot.com/2013/06/yarn-bombed-06-24-2013.html ).  When I politely asked one of the Mongols if I could take his photo with their bikes he suggested I take one of the other Mongol's photos.  I suggested to him that they weren't as "pretty" as he was.  His response," I'M NOT PRETTY MOTHER-FUCKER!  I'M A MAN!"  I took this to be a hostile response meaning that he wasn't interested in having me take his photo, so I threaded my way through the fellow bikers and left.  I realize there was something wrong with the delivery of my request.