Originally Posted by
fuji86
That's one perception, the other is that at the street corner with a red light, a cyclist and motorist can co-exist and do what they both need to do. I generally don't mind sharing in that regard as long as both parties understand and observe each others safety zones. I no more have any issue with it than I have for them passing me when the light is green. Again, the motorist can't be a ****** about it and in your case that was one stupid *****. The only way you weren't going to be at risk with that one, was to get on the sidewalk, because that one is too stupid to go around you. After looking back at her and saying what you did, I was surprised you turned back around, because those types are type A irrational road rage nut jobs behind the steering wheel of 3,000 lbs of steel and rubber. I agree with you that she was wrong, but at that point you were dealing with someone incapable of connecting the dots, you weren't going to straighten her out, the only thing that might've done that would be a traffic citation and even there some people are too broken to fix.
Agreed, and I don't mind sharing either the road or the lane (when it is safe to do so) particularly when the motorist knows how to be polite and respectful themselves. But if they act like a horses ass (or as we used to say when I was in the Army) if you're going to show your ass don't be surprised when/if you get treated accordingly.
Yes, she was, both honking and inching/creeping up alongside of me to make a right hand turn. I wonder what she'd have done if I had "accidentally" fallen over?
You're probably right about that, except that it'd be just my luck that the next time I'd "run" into her we'd be on the sidewalk and she'd than yell at me to "get in the road."
Fortunately there were plenty of witnesses and she was already slowed down to a crawl so it wasn't like short of getting out of her car and assaulting me that there was anything she could really do.
Yep, and ironically when I stopped off at the pizza joint I stop off at for a slice there were three of St. Pete's finest in there enjoying a couple of pizzas themselves. I joked with them that I could have used them being in the area last night. And kind of surprisingly they all agreed that she was in the wrong and that I was in the right.
And can ya just hear her ranting and raving to her friends and family about the cyclist that "caused" her to get a ticket?