Between substructure's tale and my own, I can only assume idiot drivers must be leaving their hibernation here in NC.

I worked from home today but ran some errands on the bike around lunchtime. First I had some morons in an SUV yell "SIDEWALK" at me as they drove by. I could see the driver looking back at me so I let him know I think he's #1, and then waved at them, asking them to come back. I got the bike up to ~28 mph trying to catch up to them, but they were too fast. Cowards.

Another guy yelled at me as he drove by about 2 miles later, but he was going the other way.

The topper came as I was leaving the shopping area. There's a poorly-designed intersection in front of the strip mall, where concrete barriers force left-turning traffic stay in the turn lanes. As I was about to pull into the turn lane two cars came the wrong way out of the barriers, nearly hitting me head-on and forcing all the traffic around me to stop.

I followed the two cars back into the parking lot. I waited next to the car of the first driver (she was on the phone--now there's a surprise) while she parked. Finally she rolled down her window. "Do you realize what you did back there?" I asked. "Yeah, the line [huh???] said I could go straight and by the time I noticed it was too late. I'm sorry."

Guess I should be happy with the apology, but it doesn't seem equal to nearly killing me.