Perfect ride home last night. Another commuter from my bldg. caught me on the way out and we rode together. Normally he's much faster than I am, but yesterday was his recovery day. Excellent timing, as I was beat from Ultimate frisbee the previous 2 days and a kid who kept me up all night.

However, this morning the idiots were out in numbers.

First I had a lady in a BMW convertible yell, "Get out of the middle of the road!" as she passed me. OK, that's dumb...but we were approaching a long line of stopped cars at a red light. That's even dumber. We stopped with me behind her and I said, "Did you just yell at me?"

"Yeah. Why are you in the middle of the road?"

"Because this lane has a hard curb and a gutter pan; there isn't enough room in this lane for a wide vehicle to pass me legally--let alone safely--so I take the entire lane. That way they don't think it might be safe to try to pass me in THIS lane and will use the left lane. Make sense?"

She said yes, but I could tell she was either angry or didn't agree. Oh well.

Then I was on the driveway for my bldg, a 20-mph narrow road that is a long steep downhill with a sharp curve and a speed bump at the bottom. A driver (presumably a coworker from my company) driving a HUGE pickup decided he HAD to pass me near the bottom of the hill, even though I was already doing ~25 and accelerating. Since there's a curve at the end both he and I swung wide, and he was now driving entirely in the opposite lane. He accelerated again....only to have to slow for the speed bump (though with a truck that high he could have taken it at speed!) while I took the speed bump at speed. I guess this was the last straw, as he started honking at me. I turned right into my parking lot; he continued straight towards another lot. Again, oh well!