Road Rage & Ageism - mild rant
Yesterday I'm returning home from a great ride; I'm four blocks from my house and some guy in a pickup truck pulls his truck right in front of me and then deliberately blocks off the entire roadway. Now he rolls down his window and starts screaming about me getting my arse off the road, because I don't belong there. I unclick, walk my bike up on the sidewalk to walk around him. I haven't said a word to him, and he throws his drink at me, ice and all. Now I'm not happy about this, but figure I'm only 4 blocks from home, and I should be able to remember his license number. When I get home I call the cops, and they come by. I give them the license number and tell my story. Then I get the ageism crap from the cop. He says, "Sir, I'm sure when you were younger things were a lot different than they are today. You probably grew up in a time when you could let your front door unlocked. But today this kind of thing happens all the time." I'm not sure who I'm the most upset with at this point.
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