Monday, December 10, 2007

my war with cyclists (continued)


My wife Bernie doesn't like it when I yell, honk, or otherwise engage cyclists, when our daughter Isa is in the car. The subsequent mass flipping off and indignant screams of "fuck you!" are completely predictable and, in Bernie's opinion, easily avoidable.

That's why I don't yell at cyclists when Isa is in the car...unless Bernie is out of the car. Once I followed a cyclist all the way down Topanga to the ocean, it must have been three miles. He wouldn't let me pass. He's a vehicle. When the road expanded to two lanes, I easily passed him. But then, at PCH, he illegally swerved back in front of me from the right, on a red light, to block me and make the left turn onto the highway ahead of me. "Are you a vehicle, or are you not a vehicle?!" I yelled, fed up with the hypocrisy. He casually flipped me off and rode away. "That one was a little complicated," Isa observed.

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7 Comments:

Blogger Ken L. said...

Perhaps if he had been dressed up as Gary Busey in drag - maybe then you'd be nice to him!! Eh?

December 10, 2007 4:39 PM  
Blogger Ken L. said...

(It also would have been even more complicated)

December 10, 2007 4:43 PM  
Blogger Bernie said...

Hey! That is totally unacceptable!

December 10, 2007 5:16 PM  
Blogger frank b. said...

It's not complicated - it's all about cadence. The bicyclist's mission is to maintain 90 rpm at any price.

December 11, 2007 4:01 AM  
Blogger Bernie said...

Even death as a price.

December 11, 2007 9:56 AM  
Blogger frank b. said...

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December 11, 2007 1:28 PM  
Blogger frank b. said...

If I knew a driver was going to yell "Are you a vehicle, or are you not a vehicle?!" if I cut him off, I would probably do so.

(But I would not then flip off the driver. Instead I would yell "forsooth!")

December 11, 2007 1:31 PM  

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