Nice ride yesterday. I often read threads of rude motorists and shake my head wondering where you live. Apparently some experience this on each ride and sometimes multiple times. I "never" experience this behavior aside from a very rare but ocassional "buzzing" from some 20 something little boy in his loud mufflered honda.
So I'm cruising along and this car is behind me which stays way back, like 75 - 100 yards. Won't get any closer. I keep cruising along and 1/2 mile later this car is still way back but with a line of cars behind it.
If I get someone behind me that for whatever reason won't pass and cars start backing up, I'll usually pull over and let everyone pass. But this guy is literally as much as 100 yards back most of the time and won't get closer. So I continue on, through a school zone.
When I am well past the school I look back and see this lead car turn into the school. I meet several cars oncoming and look back and notice this column of cars that the lead car was holding up are getting closer now, but also notice some guy has pulled out of the column and trying to pass the cars in front and meeting oncoming traffic.
About to be a major problem. So the car trying to pass manages to get back into the line and as the line reaches me I hug far right and everyone passes fine.... except the idiot trying to pass the column with oncoming traffic. Now he has embarrassed himself by getting caught over in the left lane. 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 smiled and waved. I wanted to explain to him it wasn't me, but the lead car that was holding up the column. He probably wouldn't have had the brain capacity to understand.
So it's happened. I've been cursed by a lower life form.
I've "arrived" as a roadie!
