I should have stayed in bed
10-15-09 | 01:05 PM
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From: Lincoln, Nebraska
I should have stayed in bed
Today, I took a new bridge that opened last week - just a small one over a storm water creek. The creek is being excavated and one of the trucks hauling dirt must have lost some, and in the steady rain, it turned to about 30 yards of muddy slime. So... the bottoms of my pant are all muddy. Oh well, I'll just be dirty today.
1/4 mile later I approach an intersection where I have the right of way, perpendicular has a stop sign. Car approached from my right, comes to a slow..and when I am directly in front of him - about 8 feet, he accelerates. I swerve, he hits his brakes as he finally wakes up and misses me by about 6 inches. After a one-sided, full volume conversation regarding his ancestry and reproductive habits, I'm on to work.
The taillight was muddy so I first go in the rest room to wash my hands from removing the light and realize that the mud also painted a vertical stripe on my ass, as if I had some horrible intestinal disorder. Well I can't work looking like I've crapped myself at 8:00, so, back on the bike to go home and change.
Less than an 1/8 of a mile a woman who had pulled over to let out a rider, pulls back into traffic as I am passing on her left, missing me literally by 4 inches. I mention to her her resemblance to a female dog, and she starts screaming at me. And this is on a college campus, where about 1000 students and staff bike in each day.
Jeez.
I'm walking home after catching the bus in finally.
1/4 mile later I approach an intersection where I have the right of way, perpendicular has a stop sign. Car approached from my right, comes to a slow..and when I am directly in front of him - about 8 feet, he accelerates. I swerve, he hits his brakes as he finally wakes up and misses me by about 6 inches. After a one-sided, full volume conversation regarding his ancestry and reproductive habits, I'm on to work.
The taillight was muddy so I first go in the rest room to wash my hands from removing the light and realize that the mud also painted a vertical stripe on my ass, as if I had some horrible intestinal disorder. Well I can't work looking like I've crapped myself at 8:00, so, back on the bike to go home and change.
Less than an 1/8 of a mile a woman who had pulled over to let out a rider, pulls back into traffic as I am passing on her left, missing me literally by 4 inches. I mention to her her resemblance to a female dog, and she starts screaming at me. And this is on a college campus, where about 1000 students and staff bike in each day.
Jeez.
I'm walking home after catching the bus in finally.
10-15-09 | 01:22 PM
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Pedaled too far.
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From: La Petite Roche
I hear ya.
Yesterday I rode to work at 5:00 AM, through the rain before dawn. I had to get in early because a project I was doing was kicking my behind and I had stayed till 9:30 the night before. My glasses were off and it was hard to see.
I've just come down a steep hill and slowed to go over a junction in the pavement between road and bridge that is a rim crusher if done at speeds in excess of 1 mph when I hear a big dog barking and realize that he's loose and chasing me.
Not a pleasant moment.
Yesterday I rode to work at 5:00 AM, through the rain before dawn. I had to get in early because a project I was doing was kicking my behind and I had stayed till 9:30 the night before. My glasses were off and it was hard to see.
I've just come down a steep hill and slowed to go over a junction in the pavement between road and bridge that is a rim crusher if done at speeds in excess of 1 mph when I hear a big dog barking and realize that he's loose and chasing me.
Not a pleasant moment.
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