Crazy commutes the last two days. Riding to work has been uneventful. I leave home early and don't usually end up in traffic. But home is another matter, esp. with baseball season in progress and more traffic that usual (with people coming into the city who don't normally do so) around rush hour.

Saw a bicyclist get hit by a car on Wednesday evening at an intersection I abhore for many reasons. I called 911 and cops/medical showed up w/in minutes. He was ok, just bruised, decided not to press charges since nothing was damaged. Don't know what happened to driver or anything since I was only a witness and wasn't involved in the discussions. Hope the driver was at least ticketed. Cops were super-nice though.

I was agressively buzzed/passed by a crazy angry lady yesterday. She used the left-only turn lane to barely zoooom past me, jerk back into my lane all w/in less than one-half block (a short block so I take the right lane until I can get into a safter position the next block). Of course I caught up to her at the next light and really calmly asked her if she was trying to kill me. Apparently she "gave me plenty of room beoytch" and offered to beat my *ss as well. She was a totally normal-looking person too. Just totally off her rocker and from other comments she made I decided I was not the only cyclist to tell her she did something crazy with her car. I simply shook my head, smiled, and told her (again nicely) good luck driving tomorrow w/out killing someone. Usually I don't talk with drivers unless I am certain I have an "out" and I did. It was just fascinating. Not swearing back at them and remaining totally calm helps.

Then I got cut off by jaywalkers who were oblivious to why I was saying "are you CRAZY?" as they walked in right front of moving traffic with not a care in the world.
And then there was the truck that pulled out of Starbucks and blocked my way.

But it wasn't raining!