people yelling at you while running

Typically just whistles and cat calls.  The heckling is ridiculous, I'm a human being, not a piece of meat.  

Actually, save for the very rare nice comment, I can't say I've ever had anyone yell at me while running.  Sounds like some nice people in your area.  

My running is not that far yet, but it happens now and then.  I live in a college town, and sometimes when I go for a run later at night I run past house parties and they yell something.  Usually its not bad just drunk college kids doing what they do, being drunk.

That's not what your Avatar suggests....

Do what you feel is best, of course, but I really don't recommend the one-finger salute be given to people who have already shown themselves to be beligerant a-holes.  They MAY be too cowardly or lazy to stop, but then again ...  (And if you are going to give the salute, you should really shower first, anyways.)

A nice wave and smile tends to make those folks confused, in my estimation.

Scott

It happens literally every single time I set out to run. Every. Single. Time.

I don't even flinch anymore when people lay on their horn next to me, or do the short beep-beep, holler "wooooo" or scream high-pitched out of their window, cat-call, whistle, "hey baby", and what not.

People must really be that bored.

Well if at first you don't succeed, there is always Mace and a jab to the throat.  I guess I could try a nicer more confusing approach.  Perhaps I'll stop right where I am and do the Running Man in place or bust out some Kid N' Play moves.  

These stories sadden me. Why do people suck SO much?! I have been running for 2 or 3 months and haven't been yelled at or targeted with projectiles yet. I do run in my neighborhood though, which is basically a real-life Pleasantville full of smiling children on bikes whose parents actually punish them if they're a-holes.

In the past when I experimented with running just outside my college campus, though, I did get some nasty rednecks whistling at me on occasion. It's not in my personality to give a one-finger salute. I tend to get angry, blush a little, and ignore.

I never get yelled at. maybe they feel sorry for me with the pained look on my face and the slow pace i'm running

On the other side, I've been honked at or yelled at, only to realize that it was a friend or a fellow member of my tri club trying to encourage me.

I'm a bit paranoid about flipping someone off and then realizing that it's either a friend, or even worse, one of my clients.

Mark

Ill get an occasional yell or something stupid that I usually cant even make out.  Every now and then ill get a cat call or two from a nice woman or two.  Those are encouraged and usually get a laugh out of me.

My wife and I were out doing one of her run/walk sessions the other day, and I was pushing our two little boys in the stroller. In the middle of one of the walk phases, someone drove by going crazy fast and threw a bottle that came inches from hitting my 3 year old in the face. I was SO mad, but at the speed they were moving, I couldn't come close to getting a plate number.

And that was just walking with kids in a stroller - usually you have to at least be running to draw that kind of negative attention from the dirtbags of the world.