Originally Posted by CrosseyedCrickt
I'm sitting at the red light on Metro Parkway getting ready to cross Van**** when the guy next to me rolls down his pickup window. "Great" I thought, here we go again! Then he said in deepest Yooper accent I've ever heard, "yer like the gawdammed energizer bunny there fellah, I see you almost every day... can't believe your riding in this crap". It was 40F and raining. I just smiled and said thanks.
Yet another example to strengthen my opinion that motorists in Michigan are generally decent to cyclists so long as we're talking about anywhere but SE Michigan. Hey, my grandpa owned and operated a Mobil gas station on the corner of 16 Mile and Van ****. I doubt it's there anymore.