To the very cute couple who honked at me for no reason in your tiny Toyota Yaris, go the fuck around me! I was biking down Oxford and there was absolutely more than enough room for you to drive by me. But instead you have to honk at me, why? What does that accomplish? I’m not going to ride on the sidewalk, and your car is about as small as it gets, if you can’t drive around me while I’m biking on the shoulder of the road then you’re an incompetent driver. —Billy Joe Smith
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2011.
Unless the toot was followed by a fusillade of hard objects or noxious liquids and suggestions of quaint anatomical impossibilities for you to perform upon yourself, it may just have been a warning that they were on your six.
Agreed Ivan. Sometimes I will toot just to make the cyclist aware of my impending passing. Granted it is often difficult to interpret the honkers resoning, but it may have been out of courtesy.
Incredibly rare possibility ’round these parts I know but still…
Perhaps the driver thought you were an oblivatron biker !
You know head up your ass, instead of paying attention to what you are doing…so they just wanted to let you know (without yelling at you ) that they were going on by .
Bike trumps Yaris, is why, lol. Had an Echo and every time I sneezed the fucking thing lost speed.
did you look like this op? http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/…
Try driving in India where one short honk means:
Turning left/right, going straight, reversing, I’m on the wrong side of the road, You are on the wrong side of the road, India beat Pakistan in Cricket, etc.
One long honk means
Prepare for your next reincarnation…..
if you know the rules of the road, you will know that is is not safe to pass you all the time. you are probly part of the reason people hate cyclists so much.
even if that little car had smacked you, you would still be in far worse shape, than the driver. read the fucking rules asshole, then mouth off to a cop, when he busts your ass.
And if the driver didn’t honk, you’d be bitching he or she tried to run you down and make you shit your pants.
Toyota Yaris are not tiny
I wouldn’t try to scrutinize the size of the Yaris when you are on a fuckin 30 pound bike, because im pretty sure if it, or any other vehicle for that matter hit you, you would probably be pulling your handlebars out of your ass.