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08-31-04, 01:46 AM
Last Friday I was riding along with a friend across downtown during rush hour. On one busy intersection a driver had driven his car into the intersection, not realising that he could not make it all the way through before the cars in front of him stop moving. So he got stuck in the middle of his turn, blocking a busy bidirectional bike path (no, I am not including a diagram :D). This is very common here, although sometimes the idiots manage to block the entire intersection, and it never fails to irritate me. It's not like they are getting anywhere faster, they are just making life difficult for everyone else.
He was getting flak from passing cyclists, who had to maneuver round his car whichever way they best could, and you could tell he was not impressed. He had his window open, so my friend said "nice parking" to him when passing and got a bunch of obscenities back. I went round the front of his car and patted the hood with my hand a couple of times. He leaned on the horn, cursing me through his window and flipping the bird. Following instructions from fellow Forum members I turned and blew him a kiss. He turned bright red, stopped honking and rolled up his window.
I don't know what it did to him, but it surely was good for me. Before I would have been fuming for a couple of blocks, telling myself what a jerk he was. Now I had this big wide grin on my face. I don't remember who first suggested this, but it worked. Thank you whoever you are!
--J
He was getting flak from passing cyclists, who had to maneuver round his car whichever way they best could, and you could tell he was not impressed. He had his window open, so my friend said "nice parking" to him when passing and got a bunch of obscenities back. I went round the front of his car and patted the hood with my hand a couple of times. He leaned on the horn, cursing me through his window and flipping the bird. Following instructions from fellow Forum members I turned and blew him a kiss. He turned bright red, stopped honking and rolled up his window.
I don't know what it did to him, but it surely was good for me. Before I would have been fuming for a couple of blocks, telling myself what a jerk he was. Now I had this big wide grin on my face. I don't remember who first suggested this, but it worked. Thank you whoever you are!
--J