Originally Posted by Nick C

WORST COMMUTE EVER!
Today started off on a bad note, and just got worse and worse with a series of unfortunate events. I woke up at 5:00 AM, an hour and a half earlier than usual. I headed out on my ride in, and it started off ok. The roads were dry after a few weeks of wet weather, and I really wasn't feeling to tired, just a little slower than usual. On the last leg of my commute, about 5 min. from school, I passed the 988 bus as it was picking up passengers. There was a stoplight up ahead, and I got through on the yellow, so it was a while before the bus caught back up to me. On a narrow two lane road, it swung out into oncoming traffic, and tried to pass me. Unfortunately, the driver failed to realize he was driving a slow, long bus, and had to swerve back into my lane before the end of the bus passed me, forcing me onto about 3 in. of shoulder, luckily not onto the mud after that point. This is the third time I have had trouble with this particular route/driver, he previously ran a red, turned wide and almost crushed me, as well as another instance of unsafe passing, that time buzzing me way to close.
On the way home, all is going well save for losing traction on the front wheel going up a steep hill (i saved it right before I fell), until I went to pass a slower cyclist. I moved out of the bike lane, was in the center of the car lane, and a motorist comes roaring by, buzzing both me and the car going the opposite direction.
Then, going down stone way, a long stretch with just enough of an incline for me to keep up with traffic, I am again in the center of the lane, when I see the cab of a small box truck way to close to me, I assume he was trying to pass me, and get into the non existent space between me and the car in front of me. After I looked back and yelled "What the f**k are you doing?" at him while he motioned for me to get over to the right, I accelerated and pulled all the way to the left, about one ft from the yellow line, where I spent the next five min, adrenaline pumping, franticly accelerating and slowing down to keep up with the garbage truck in front of me so the truck driver wouldn't try to get into any small gap I made.
To top it all off I got stuck for ten min. waiting for the Fremont Bridge.

I sorry about the extremely long and badly written post, I'm still shaking from anger/adrenaline, and I really needed to vent.