I have always wondered, if placed in a life or death situation, whether or not my non-violent self would be a fight or flight kind of girl. I think I have discovered that I might have some fight in me. Since I have been biking as my primary source of transport I am really getting fed up with cars trying to kill me! I am a safe biker, I stay in the bike lane, or to the far right, obey the traffic rules, and try to avoid being run over. But it’s the cars that don’t seem to pay any attention to the awesome people biking. Recently a cab, whom I know saw me, drove right into the bike lane, squishing me into a parked car. How did I get my justice? I punched the cab, and spewed out a rant that would make a truck driver blush. Not that the driver noticed, but it felt good. Nothing like an attempt to kill you to cause a pacifist to rage! I know it’s totally cliché, but those damn SUV drivers are the worst. Who the hell even needs a Hummer in the city? I know they can’t see me, and they for sure aren’t paying any attention to anything but their cell phone. Karma must manifest itself at the gas station. It can’t be fun, filling up your man-killing vehicle at $500 a tank! I know there is a lot to pay attention to while driving in the city, but is it really so hard to not kill the bikers? It’s not as if we are trying to hide from traffic. I think what it all comes down to is this: four wheels bad, two wheels good!
On an unrelated note…I must vent about a behavior of pedestrians that really irritates me. When you are at the airport and you hop on the moving walkway, there is a lovely little voice that reminds you if you want to stand, move to the right, so as not to block the people that wish to walk past you. The same thing applies when you are on an escalator. It’s a moving walkway, meant for climbing the stairs, not a ride! It seems the rest of the world is aware of this, but for some reason, self obsessed, lazy Americans seem to think escalators are some subway/mall ride they can hog up and relax on! If you want to ride, take the elevator, if you want to stand on the escalator, move, single file to the right, and let people that are actually going somewhere walk by on the left.
I apologize for the big rant, now I can go back to being all about the love & summer breeze.