For those who ride motorcycles

[rrneck]

don't walk into the store with your helmet on.

That is all.

[TheCruces]

1. LMFAO...I know!

It makes you look like the biggest tool ever. I always just carry it in my hand or stick it in the cart. If I'm running in real quick, I'll just leave it hanging on my bike.

We have a customer at my job that has the biggest, most elaborate helmet I've ever seen and he never takes it off. And he rides a little scooter. He'll stand outside the store having long conversations on his walkie talkie cell phone while wearing the helmet.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. A coupla things...

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... as related to TheCruces comment, "biker gangs" in Southern Germany in the 70's were
REALLY weenies compared to American bikers (not so in the North, where they were very
similar to American clubs -- though this included the country-wide American club known,
I believe, as "The Iron Horses".
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In the south of Germany, the biggest bike might be a 450 cc model. Many moped/scooters,
some of them chromed out and fully chopped with extended forks and sissy bars, etc.
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Many of these "bikers" wore full colors and you could spot a few chromed big-spiked Kaiser
helmets in the group.
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Some buddies and I had a run-in with one of those "gangs" in a German college bar and were
worried about how we were going to get to (and out of) the parking lot.
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Before that happened, a small committee of "bikers" came over and apologized profusely for
the rude behavior of their compatriot and hoped we could let bygones be bygones.
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"Well, OK... ... ... ... we GUESS so."
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They want you to remove your helmet for the same reason banks post signs to remove your
hats and sunglasses before approaching their counters -- not everyone wearing these is a
bank robber, but every bank robber is wearing them.
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Back around 1980, I wore a full-faced helmet (saved my face in my BAD rear-ending by a
drunk in a station wagon). It used to piss me off ROYALLY when a bar wouldn't secure it
behind the bar. These weren't biker bars, where you might have 10-30-50 helmets to deal
with. These were standard bars where you MIGHT have 1 or 2 or 3.
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My helmet cost about $150 (a fortune in those days) and the coat rack they always pointed
to was invariably just a step or two inside the front door.
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I would leave and never go back.
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And they lost a SIGNIFICANT (hic) source of income.
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Don't worry, I learned NOT to drink on the bike before I hurt myself or anyone else. Lucky me.
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[rrneck]

3. I agree. Always take the gourd guard inside.

But one thing I never did is take a drink and get on a bike. I'd had it off the ground and drug the pegs too many times times (500 lb. 750) to think I'd survive. Some if us don't have to drink to be stupid.

And if I had the money for another one I'd probably be just as stupid today.