Originally Posted by Sammyboy
I see so many threads on bikeforums where peoples initial response to things is to swear and yell and be aggressive.... And by using "Hey, I'm from NY, whaddya expect" a standard excuse for every kind of bad behaviour, the above is the result.
You're quite right. Using profanity
is a failure of the imagination -- but it gets the point across that you're taking up an adversarial position. And it does so economically. And it's not ambiguous. But yes, I'd love to be the Zen master who avoids all conflict. Maybe that's the lesson: that which doesn't kill me never needs to know how close it came.
I mean, am I really going to instruct the first driver to use his turn signal? And will the second driver ever learn that parking in the bike lane gets him a ticket?