The distinction between the two is that you only see your dinner mates at the end of the day or for a couple of minutes on the road.
Having dinner mates doesn't mean that you're travelling with someone because they don't give a shit about you nor your feelings. Travelling together means watch out for each other and include every single soul in the group, no matter in terms of money or conversation. Travel mates don't pay for just themselves and tell you later that they haven't pay for you while they've already had showers, saying oh we're not sure if you'll come here (of course I'll come here, you fucking idiot, what the fuck you think I was doing behind ya?).
Looking after one another is particularly important in cycle touring because there're the unstable, unexpected elements in it, let it be physical or mechanical breakdown or road accidents, anything could happen. What if one was 10k behind and was dehydrated and that nobody was around to help? While his dinner mates are enjoying their cold drinks comfortably in the shade, damn, he is so slow!
It goes back to the "well-educated kind" issue once more. They piss you off with great frequency and still don't know what's wrong with you (it's always you and they're always the good, of course). The point is, they simply suck and don't worth your time. Some of them will learn and some just never will. And unfortunately, the never-wills are the majority inside the majority.
3 comments:
Hi Mr. Philosophist!
Good blogs, keep up that good work.
Just to let you know I'm back from the isolation...
Hey , Schuma,
Are you all right?
I find you pretty angry with your dinner mates all the time.
Off course , I am on your side,
take care of yourself ....
Kelly from TAIWAN
You've been away for quite a while huh, Katrin.
Of course I'm angry with the dinner mates, they just never thought about my feelings and always think that they're always right and when a problem appears to the surface they would just say "oh, I thought we'd already had a deal" or some craps like that. Don't really need to put up with that shit so I'm no longer with them.
But out of good will I tried to make peace with them yesterday. However, one of them is simply a bitch, she said "it means nothing to me whether we're friends or foes" and that was really insulting so I said alright that's it and turned away. The problem with the bitch is that she thinks she'd always right and listens to no advice, while the problem with another is that she has no ideas of her own, only listens to the bitch.
Anyway, it's good to know that someone's on my side.
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