i need to rant for a moment here
Jun. 14th, 2004 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamDear People Who I Don't Know Who Beep At Me:
It's possible you mean well. Maybe you're trying to be friendly, or funny. You're not, okay? I'm sorry. But try to see it from my point of view. What I see is tinted windows and a couple thousand pounds of metal. SUVs are, like, the natural predators of bikes, and I get that lower-on-the-food-chain panic. Come on, you're coming up from behind me on random back streets, I can hear you coming but I can't see you, and then you honk? Please.
Beeping at me when I am pulled over on the shoulder of the road turning my bike upside-down to try to force the chain back onto the gears (I discovered, twice, that it's possible to put a bike into the equivalent of neutral while riding) and noticing how flat my tires are and thinking about how much I wish I had my license or stay-at-home parents with nothing better to do, and wanting to be home already because I'm worried it's going to start raining? It's just insult on injury. Screw you and your truck too, jerk.
Sincerely,
me
[Of course, if you're reading this entry, then it's inapplicable to you. But I needed to get it out of my system. I feel much better now.]
It's possible you mean well. Maybe you're trying to be friendly, or funny. You're not, okay? I'm sorry. But try to see it from my point of view. What I see is tinted windows and a couple thousand pounds of metal. SUVs are, like, the natural predators of bikes, and I get that lower-on-the-food-chain panic. Come on, you're coming up from behind me on random back streets, I can hear you coming but I can't see you, and then you honk? Please.
Beeping at me when I am pulled over on the shoulder of the road turning my bike upside-down to try to force the chain back onto the gears (I discovered, twice, that it's possible to put a bike into the equivalent of neutral while riding) and noticing how flat my tires are and thinking about how much I wish I had my license or stay-at-home parents with nothing better to do, and wanting to be home already because I'm worried it's going to start raining? It's just insult on injury. Screw you and your truck too, jerk.
Sincerely,
me
[Of course, if you're reading this entry, then it's inapplicable to you. But I needed to get it out of my system. I feel much better now.]
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Date: 2004-06-17 07:41 pm (UTC)So you have to be deeply angry to play GTA well, huh? And here I thought I was just bad at it. Of course my strategy in games I don't know well involves heavy button-mashing, which works less in driving games than fighting. :P
That last paragraph is totally my utopia. Besides, I thought according to MA law pedestrians had the right of way even if they're square-dancing in the middle of the pike, and though bicyclists are nothing like pedestrians I feel we deserve the same consideration, seeing as we're actually propelling ourselves by our feet, or something of the sort. ... Of course, you're not actually in the state, are you? Darn. There goes Evil Plan #59276.