Originally Posted by thomspins

Well, I got wonderfully pissed off at one of my coworkers at lunch today!

Myself and 2 others went to lunch today, well on the way back we're riding down this 4 lane road in the right hand lane. The road: medium traffic, semi-residential area, speed limit 40. I see a cyclist up ahead and by now i'm thinking I would have already been looking to see if the other lane was clear to go ahead and get over... well the guy driving stays in the lane runs up behind the cyclist and slows... then starts raising hell at the guy for being in the road; knowing I'm a cyclist, then changes lanes when clear and zooms around, all the while still enraged that some guy was just riding his bike...

After my HR goes down and the feeling of beating this guy down subsides; I attempt the usual advocacy topics...; he was on a legal vehicle, was no bike lane, so on and so forth... the guy just could not see any point for anyone to be riding a bike holding everyone up... His rebuttal; why should the majority suffer for the minority to benefit (traffic backing up for a guy to ride his bike), also he didn't feel the taxpayers should pay for bike lanes either... (not many around here use them so cyclists don't bear as much of the cost as motorists for the lanes).. the guy is pretty politically aware, opinionated, and generally just a know it all... anyway he just couldn't level with me. At the least I explained, what is the big deal... someone holds you up a little here and there every once in a while... big deal.. most people are rational, compassionate, and patient enough to not let little things like this piss them all off.

Anyway, i'm still pissed
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