Do you ride or drive a bike??

Tama Drummer, 22 August 2003 - 2:54pm

When I go to work my dad says 'drive safely, I'm like 'I don't drive I ride!!'
I told him you only drive things with a engine, but he reckons you do drive a bike & also a horse, your only ridding it when your a passenger.
So who's right??

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i think it depends on the bike? It ...

i think it depends on the bike?
It would make more sense if you were driving a motorbike, but I think it makes more sense to say I'm riding a bike, driving a car/truck etc.
driving a horse is something different I think- relates to something else with horses , maybe horse racing or something,
but most times- unless you're real good at equesitrian (sp?) stuff the horse is probably driving you....
to ride in a car would mean you're a passenger..

urgh..
anyone got a grammar manual anywhere?

axel, 22 August 2003 - 4:33pm

// i think it depends on the ...

// i think it depends on the bike?

opps I didn't say, its a 21 speed mountain bike

Tama Drummer, 22 August 2003 - 5:34pm

If you were riding a bicycle then the ...

If you were riding a bicycle then the bike is choosing which direction you want to go. Since the bike can't make those decisions, you actually drive the bicycle... When you ummm travel along the road on a bicycle without peddling thats when you are riding a bicycle e.g. Downhill. Methinks anyway.
Methinks is one word.

SaidInJest, 22 August 2003 - 5:35pm

The new Army Captain was assigned to a ...

The new Army Captain was assigned to a recon company in a remote post
in the desert. During his first inspection, he noticed a camel hitched up
behind the mess tent. He asks the First Sergeant why the camel is kept there.
"Well, sir," is the nervous reply, "as you know, there are 250 men here
and no women. And sir, sometimes the men have ...m-m-m.... urges. That's
why we have the camel, sir."
The Captain says, "I can't say that I condone this, but I understand
about urges, so the camel can stay."
About a month later, the Captain starts having a real problem with his
own urges. Crazy with passion, he asks the First Sergeant to bring the
camel to his tent. Putting a stool behind the camel, the Captain stands on it,
pulls down his pants, and has wild, insane sex with the camel.
When he is done, he asks the First Sergeant, "Is that how the men do
it?"
"Uh, no sir," the First Sergeant replies. "They usually just ride the
camel into town where the girls are."

ÆNIMA, 22 August 2003 - 5:36pm