Even for a cager he was an IDIOT!!!!
 

Was waiting in the left turn lane for the light to change. As he crossed in front of me the while making his own left, cager told me "Sidewalk!". Which would have been stupid even if there had BEEN a sidewalk on that road. I mean CAN you make a left turn from the sidewalk? But since there WAS no sidewalk, I can only assume he meant that I should forget about getting to my destination and only ride WHERE there are sidewalks. Of course I couldn't explain any of this as he was gone in a second.... probably to his job as a pricechecker at the Dollar Store....

It's always amusing when they tell you to use something that doesn't exist. That and part of the word sideWALK should have given him a clue.

Yeah, I recall once being out riding with a friend. We're waiting at the red light in the left turn lane—you know, to turn left. A motorist rolls down her window and asks "What are you doing in the left turn lane?" My friend responds "Taking a left turn."

Classic.

Your friend could have also said..."Um, waiting for the light to turn green."

Shout back "FREEWAY!"

Yeah, my favorite response is, "ROAD bike!"

You know you can't win. Once, I was riding to our downtown area near my house on my folder because my ankle was hurting so I didn't feel like walking. My wife and her friend were walking on the sidewalk with me basically coasting along just behind them and we were chatting as we went along. An old guy cursed me out for riding on the sidewalk. That was just the beginning of an interesting ride/walk.

Yup!

Any Americans ever had full water bottles thrown at you from a moving vehicle at 40 MPH?

We have become sooo anti-social. It's poison. Everything is about me me me me me, and now it's turning.... Them Them Them Them!

This, considering the title of the post, is deliciously ironic.

I've had a half-full water bottle thrown at me at about 25 MPH. At that speed, it was just an annoyance.


Somebody here a while ago said that they comfort themselves by remembering that the hostile driver has demonstrated himself/herself to be a bigger jerk than the 99.9% of the drivers on the road who didn't yell. That's something to think about. When friends ask me why bicyclists flagrantly disregard the rules of the road, I try to convince them that it's a small minority of bicyclists but that it happens to be the ones they notice. A similar argument obviously applies to "cagers."

side-what?

"Garage" or "Junkyard!"

I prefer "Parking Lot". ;)

Round here in Arkansaw, they's prefer beer bottles fer throwin. The glass gives better impact than plastic. But last time they tried it they missed: maybe something to do with the fact that they'd been drinking while they were driving!

Once someone threw a bag of fries, but they forgot the ketsup. :lol:

There should be a new show hosted by Bill Cosby called, "Drivers Say the Funniest Things."

One day I was waiting at a stop light. The light turns green and as I ride straight through some guy in an old pickup yells out, "shave your legs!" Apparently he prefers to see men with shaven legs. I am not going to fullfil that request even if it does makes me more aero.

I had a guy yell "get on the sidewalk!" once when I was riding in the bike lane. I pointed out that there was a bicycle painted directly underneath me. He shut up pretty quickly.

While at a stoplight I had a guy tell me I shouldn't be in the road during rush because "people were trying to get to work". I replied, "Yep, so am I". He really didn't have a reply for that.

Best I ever had was some teenager leen about half way out the passenger window and just scream as they passed me. All I could think is I really hope that wasn't suppose to make me look stupid.

Favorite moment: The day of the local marathon, my wife and I are riding our bikes downtown, not very far from the finish line. This marathon is a big event, and traffic around downtown is severely snarled. While waiting at a light, a motorist in the right-turn lane leans out his window and yells "It's your fault traffic is all messed up!" We laugh.

Second-favorite moment: out for a ride in the country, slowly climbing a hill after a long day in the saddle. A beached whale of a woman ensconced on her front porch sees us and yells "Get a car!" My riding partner yells back "Get a life!"

Man, I don't want to live where you guys live.

While riding in a bike lane one day, passing a huge line up of stopped traffic on my left, I came upon a motor vehicle parked in the bike lane, apparently the driver thought this would somehow give her magical powers to escape the traffic (you know, like a cyclist can). After scaring her half to death by knocking on her back window (she apparently wasn't expecting a cyclist in the bike lane) she pulls into her lane and yells at me while I start passing, "Get on the sidewalk!" Referring to the wide sidewalk to my right. I look over, look ahead and back to her, then point at the bike lane, "This is a BIKE lane, THAT is your CAR lane..." She gets quite hysterical and kind of re-iterates her sidewalk rant. I respond by saying, "I am in my legal travel lane. If you stay there, in your legal lane, then there is no problem!" I left her laughing maniacally in her stationary car as I rode away. :twitchy:

If it was a newish car, you should have said "how's that car payment treating you".

To the shouted "get on the bike path" when there isn't one for miles around, I have to say "I'm on it" if I say anything at all. And a couple weeks ago, riding to work it the dark, some gomer rolls his window down to scream "get a car *****!!!"

eh, what?

too funny. . .the forum's language nanny autobot edits the term for a female dog to read *****. . . .yeesh. . . .

It's not uncommon to get harassed by a driver and then later casually pass and wave as they're stuck in grid lock. :)

I must say, I'm almost jealous reading this thread! I never get any of those harassment while commuting, what I am doing wrong? LOL.

I recall riding home one fine afternoon in the huge bike lane along one of Salt Lake City's major East/West thoroughfares. As I was within about 50 yards of a light, the traffic was stopped, and I had a clear shot to the light in the bike lane. A few cars ahead I saw a big Dodge pickup edging to the right, into the bike lane, perhaps to get an early jump on the right turn lane that was still at least 50 feet farther ahead (and to the right of the bike lane). I passed on his right, and heard the impatient revving of an engine behind me. Soon afterwards, the truck was riding my wheel up to the light, where he pulled into the turn lane and rolled down his window. They guy started spouting all kinds of crap about how he had the right of way and that I was riding in the turn lane. I pointed out the sign that had a diagram of the bike lane with the text "cyclists only" and informed him that his aggressive driving was a chargeable offense. I also reminded him that I was observing traffic laws (ahem, stopped at a light, for one) and that he had driven in the bike lane too far ahead of the legal place to access the turn lane.
He mumbled and grumbled, and I bid him good day as the light turned green.
Jackass.

Things be definately gettin' NASTY 'roun' heah... Two days ago a cretin blew his horn FIVE times as he passed while crowding me on a shoulderless road whose right edge is one inch from the curb. Last night, a maniac in a red pick up screamed something at me as he came flying up behind me in a traffic circle while I was all the way to the inside. I had my lights on but apparently he didn't see me until he was ON me because he was doing 35 thru the circle and cross vision is reduced due to a gas station in the center of the circle. When I shouted "I'm legally HERE!" He gave me the finger. I then called him an impolite name for an onanist*.


As Bill O'Reilly would say: "Look it up."

Should have said "Get a bike!". That kind of suggestion would probably be lost on on a person like that, though.