I was intentionally right hooked once and almost smashed into the back of a truck one time. I looped back and found the guy after he had parked his truck and confronted him. I asked him to be more careful and told him that he had nearly caused me to crash. He got all pissed and called me a skinny *** so I hocked a loogie on his shoe and rode off. It felt good, but I always worried that he would see me and run me over with his truck (this was my regular commute).

Another time, I was out with some friends when a guy in a truck honked and buzzed us. We chased him down and when he realized he was going to be stuck at a red he did a u-turn and headed back towards us. I picked up my bike a threw it at his truck. He jumped out and we started a verbal exchange that I don't really remember. A few seconds later there were 20 or so guys in the street that had come from a party to see what was going on. One of them was a relative of the guy in the truck and they were ready to send us all to the hospital. Luckily the guy was older and wiser than the rest of us hotheads and he accepted my apology, agreed to be more careful and let us go. It could have ended very differently.

I've chosen not to escalate those situations anymore. It's one thing to defend yourself, spitting on someone for their words or throwing a bike at someones car for reckless driving is something else.