While not a commute I thought I'd share this story with you all. I needed to go west on Chambers so I took the Brooklyn Bridge and not the Manhattan. I met this amazing family of tourists in the bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge who responded to my calls of "excuse me" and "wrong side folks!" by yelling "we hear you"and "yeah we heard you." Yet they continued down the bike path and kept yelling at me.
Finally, they went other and I began to sped up only to instantly slam on my brakes as the mom yelled "Those are our kids!" The family exited the bike lane but left their small kids, who I couldn't see since since they were standing in front of them, in the bike lane in the path of an oncoming bike! I came to a full stop about a full bike length back . I then yelled ******** at the parents and went away before they tried to punch me. I just can't believe what stupid parenting that was. Why would they just leave their kids in the bike lane there knowing I'm about to head towards them? I feel horrible for yelling but I was just so amazed and terrified. I don't intend to be an ******* and try my best to be pleasant to pedestrians. But what stupidity! I do feel bad about the whole thing.