Originally Posted by
WNCGoater
... I often read threads of rude motorists and shake my head wondering where you live.........
......... He has his passenger window and starts screaming obscenities at me. Something about "getting off the ********** road you ******, and ******** and by then he was far enough past that I couldn't hear him further.
I know exactly what you mean! I'd rode for years without the yelling motorist. Then one day... waiting at a traffic light... I hear yelling and look behind me and there is this guy yelling and motioning.
I figured something important is happening so I pick up my bike and scurry back to his passenger window. I ask him if he's OK.
He says: "G
et off the road so I can get by"... while pointing towards the sidewalk.
I ask: "
You want me to ride my bike on the sidewalk?" In my mind I am thinking this guy is clowning around or something... and I am smiling ear-to-ear.
He says: "
Yeah... get off the road".
So (still smiling) I say: "F*** Y**, I am not going to do that".
And as I walk my bike back in front of the guy he whips his car out into the left lane and runs the red light while slipping into the moving traffic. To me it was just an odd/strange interaction. I think he expected me to be intimidated. I don't think the guy realized till I stuck my head in his passenger window... that I was maybe a decade older than him.... and much larger/fitter than him. I think the up-close interaction scared him.