To the … (I don’t know how to call you because asshole is not enough of a word and f*cktard would insult too many, so I will use “thing”). So, this is to the THING who decided to cut me off on Robie/Welsford last week. I remember what your car looked like and your plate. Cars were stopped to let me pass to head out on Robie toward Quinpool on my bicycle. YOU ALMOST RAN ME OVER!!! There was a damned good reason that those cars were stopped! They were “Hey, someone needs to get on Robie and hey, the next light is red anyway, so let’s be nice about it.” The only good move you did was to honk like the THING you are. If I haven’t heard you, your insurances would have went up, I would be in the hospital recovering from your stupid ignorance, and your insurance would have bounced up, on top of paying for a road bike (You know those are in the 4 digits now right?). It was hilarious to follow you less than 50m all the way for a few km until I had to turn. Realize that in town, many cyclists are as fast as cars are, if not faster, overall because of all the stops and pedestrians and lights. So to you, THING, next time cars are stopped, I hope you can stop, think, and stay patiently still because being in such a hurry, didn’t bring you further than me even after 2.5km now did it? We were at the exact same light, both leading ours lines. I hope you love being so much in a hurry that you constantly risk to run people over. This is the Maritimes, so chill out your ass and respect the others on the road. Good thing I am always looking out to save my ass from THINGS like you. —As Fast As You
This article appears in May 9-15, 2013.
Polite driving does not equate to correct driving. You shouldn’t have been given the right away to merge from the other drivers. Sure it’s the nice thing to do, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It’s odd how you not respecting the rules of the road and it’s hierarchy led you to bitch out someone who was upset that your self-entitlement encroached on their entitlement.
Laugh OB! They are spending their hard-earned dollars to transport their fats asses across the city. Take your bike and savings to the bank, whilst laughing at those fools!
Dislikes and hatred from car drivers is always welcomed!
your caps lock is stuck.
whoever had the right of way had the right of way, VEHICLE.
meaty is jealous because he can’t afford a car.
Honey, lemme tell you right now, I’m slim, toned and gorgeous. And I drive. Why? Because i can afford a car AND the time to exercise.
Should have paid attention in school when they threatened you.
As a fellow cyclist this bothers me alot. I have had very few close calls, and one semi serious bump, but the close call idiot vehicles always ended up stopped at the same red light as me. Just fuckin’ pointless how some people act when they drive.
Regretfully though, you do not pay insurance on your bike, therefore if its damaged by a motor vehicle they will not be responsible for the damage. I now ride a $200 stock bike from Canadian Tire for a reason.
geez crayons, i can hear your horn tooting
Don’t worry breadgirl, wouldn’t be the first thing she posted that was factually incorrect.
but she’s gorgeous and slim and toned and drives a car, that’s what i meant by tooting
No, she isn’t, that’s what I mean by factually incorrect.
I kid though, I just like to rail on crayons.. I don’t find her pics to be particularly attractive but beauty is subjective. I’m sure she’s a cool person in real life, to me she comes off as a pretentious know-it-all in her comments, who really doesn’t know as much as she thinks she does.
The road to Hell is full of potholes this time of the year.
Maybe those “nice” drivers were setting you up OP. : (
Riding bikes and kicking cars….
…. and of course, you were walking that wheeled bitch across the road, correct? I am sure that is what you were doing ….. yes, I believe that is what one is supposed to do at a crosswalk.
What would you rather hear dude? My horn tooting or being all ful of false modesty? Which is seriously more annoying?
I’m proud of a lot of things about myself. I don’t make a big thing of it unless some dumbass makes a point of saying something like “all car owners are fat, ugly and unhealthy” Then i stand up as a poster child for the fact that you CAN drive and be VERY healthy.
Yeah meaty that was my attitude too when i couldn’t afford a car. I CHOOSE to take the bus. haha…. Yeah keep telling yourself that.
in fact, aren’t bus people sitting on their asses too? Just for a LONGER period of time?
If i drive downtown, I’m sitting on my ass for ten minutes. If i take the bus I’m sitting on my ass for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
There. Now your theory has holes.
I feel ya crayons. I’m just teasin’
If anyone thinks that using public transit is a “moral choice”, I’d like to shake them by the hand
…and then slam it in the door of a pimped-out escalade.
Public transportation is a good thing. It takes everyone who theoretically COULD be driving a personal vehicle and getting those vehicles off the road by consolidating all those riders into one place.
That’s a good thing. A very good thing.
Plus it’s awesome for people who like to drink. You SHOULDN’T drive your car when you’re drunk. It’s stupid and dangerous and pointless when you can get a lift home from what is, hopefully, a sober driver.
I have no issues whatsoever with public transportation. I took it for years and had no major complaints about it.
However when people come along and make a stink about those who CAN afford their own cars and instead of making it about emissions in the environment they choose to make it about health? That’s just plain stupid.
The only good thing about public transportation is that the briefest of 10 minute trips is sufficient to utterly disprove the pernicious theory of white supremacy, and probaby cast serious doubts on evolution as well. If I weren’t spending all the scrilla I pull down for writing P.R. for Metro Transit on crystal and the ponies, I’d be driving a big-ass Hummer and sucking down baby seal smoothies made by land-mine amputee child labour.
So I guess Meaty isn’t sebastien? Shocker
Sorry crayons, but you can’t fuck me. I don’t like girls…
Vagina. Eeeeeewwwwwwww!
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Trivia note: Stewies submachinegun is a pretty accurate rendering of the American M-3 “Grease Gun”. Lee Marvin and the rest of the Dirty Dozen were armed with them when they attacked the German headquarters chateau.