Not going to work today, but last night's ride home was tough... not for any other reason than it was immediately before the snow storm that has Long Island shut down today, but because I was riding at rush hour. I'm generally willing to give cagers some leeway, as long as my safety isn't in question, but a particularly clueless cager put my life in danger last night. I was the last vehicle through a yellow light, probably should have stopped, but I was going a good 20+ MPH trying to make the light. As I'm passing through the intersection, the crossing traffic gets their green and I hear engines start to rev. As I reach the far side of the intersection, a car making a right turn doesn't even bother looking for crossing traffic and proceeds to make her turn directly into my path. I got pushed to the extreme left side of the lane, I was even with the driver side door and the cager had no idea. I yelled a couple times, no response (and I have a fairly loud voice!), laid on my brakes as the car continued to move to the left. If I hadn't taken evasive action, I'd either have collided with the driver side of the car or gotten pushed into on coming traffic. I pulled into a pharmacy parking lot to collect myself for a couple minutes, then proceeded home without incident.
Moral of the story, I'll pass on the rush hour ride from now on. Given the option, I'll wait an extra hour at work, 6PM before I head home...