Some of my best friends are bicyclists, but ….
(You’ve got to watch out for that kind of start. It’s like when someone offering you advice starts with, “I’m only thinking of your own good.” You know they’re probably not.)
This newspaper headline caught my eye Saturday morning, “Driver who hit cyclist is sought.”
First, two important facts: 1. No one was injured; it was a dispute that got out of hand. 2. I wish no one any injury, or even near injury — ever.
But I’ve got this thing about cyclists. Many of them outrage my sense of … I don’t know, I’m not rational about this subject.
How not-rational am I?
I finally had to have a “this must stop” conversation with myself last year when I found myself driving down West River Road screaming through my open window at a bicyclist who had just zipped past me, running a stop sign — of course. Don’t they always!
Honestly, I was deep into biker-rage (as in road-rage) and it had to stop.
There’s something about bikers’ constant complaint about drivers and the way it contrasts with their absolute disregard for every rule of the road that really ticks me off!
I probably should have sent this screed to the newspaper that carried the story. But I know it would make no difference.
A couple times a year some poor soul complains about bikers’ total distain for the law in the letters to the editor only to be deluged by, it seem to me, self-righteous cyclists all claiming purity and light, telling their near-death-on-the-streets stories and damming all drivers to hell. It’s like the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Ok. So here’s my final statement on the subject (probably not). I will continue to be careful around bikers and have many friends among them. But I will also continue to resent their lawless behavior.
OBEY THE LAW!!
Ok, I feel better.
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