Exercising on the road will eventually bring with it some form of harassment. Usually from motorists. Today I got my first heckling while out rollerskiing through some recently developed (and immaculately paved) suburbs. There were two kids leaning out of an open window throwing water balloons onto the road. I looked at them as I approached and said "Don't even think about it." But what did I expect? They looked bored (I could see their mom(?) in the living room talking to the real estate agent(?)) and here I was making an irresistible target with my bright orange shorts and looking goofy with skis/poles/helmet. So of course they threw water balloons at me. I'm pretty sure that it was all in good fun because they missed and they would have had to have really bad aim to miss me from where their window was if they were in fact trying to hit me. I thought about stopping to talk to their mom and get them in trouble just to be malicious but that felt too immature so I just laughed at them and kept skiing. What I should have done, had I been clever enough to think of it at the time instead of five minutes later, would have been to catch one of the water balloons and throw it back at them. It was a downhill though, and I had a 90° turn to make, and I'm not that skilled on rollerskis anyway, so I missed my opportunity. Next time I'll be ready. I don't even have any compunctions about throwing a water balloon back into the house (even if it was brand new and probably selling for around $750). I think that getting hit with a water balloon is an occupational hazard of throwing them in the first place.