Caught a little off-guard by the dark as I left work tonight. I had my lights, I guess I just wasn't mentally ready for it to be pitch black when I walked out of the building.

Had some a-hole blowing the horn at me again. Riding on my usual 4-lane arterial, with a wide outside lane at this point. Someone behind me starts blowing the horn, stops, starts again, then continues as he finally moves left to go around (though there was plenty of room to come by in the lane). I kick it up a notch as I see that I'm going to catch him at the light.

I follow him into a parking lot and give him my 2 cents. He leads with "you're going to get you ass kicked riding like that", at which point I'm truly shocked I didn't jump on him. Surprising even myself, I stayed calm and told him I was riding legally and asked him what his problem was. Apparently, he was pissed that I didn't move into the "median" as he was calling it to allow cars to pass. Apparently, he thought I should have been in a turn lane that went nowhere but an office building rather than remaining in the lane during "rush hour traffic".

I'm rather disappointed with myself. I'm a quiet, laid back person, but I usually get very loud and confrontational in these situations. It cuts the stress and by the time I get home I've forgotten about the incident. Tonight, I could neither blow it off, nor really get in his face and I'm still annoyed.