To the man (or very homely woman) on the bike this foggy morning across from the Joe Howe Shoppers: Screw you too!
I stopped at the stop sign at the end of my street. Did my normal back and forth glance. I took my foot off the break and then breaked again when I saw your tiny blinking headlight approaching through the fog. I stopped at least 10 feet from you and mouthed the word “sorry” and gave you a wave. What did you do? Shake your fist at me and start bitching!
I officially reneg my sorry (as I’m sure you could tell by the way I honked my horn at you and gave you the finger).
PS-Before I get berated for being a horrible driver, I do car pool, I do drive a very fuel efficient car, and I ride a bike, weather permitting. I’m pro-bike–but not pro-asshat.
Thanks!
—scotianova
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2009.
This is a good point, if bicycles are suppored to be road traffic that we are aware of, then they should at least have a decent headlight. If they get angry people dont see them on a foggy day, they should go fuck themselves!!!
I had some worldsaver cunt freak out at me one night because I almost drove into her turning left when she was going straight through.
She was dressed in black riding a black bike with no lights. I’m pretty sure she was carrying a black garbage bag (no doubt with her “art” in it) at the same time.
Fucking idiot.
On my daily commuter bike I’ve got lights f+r (and not cheapass “Turtle Lights” from MEC either, those are fucking worthless) plus reflectors. Lights are like lube, there’s no such thing as too much.
Fucking right cranky. What kind of idiot rides around at night expecting everybody to just know where the fuck they are. People are there own worst enemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fucking retards
And what about those fucking idiots who think blizzard is synomous with “Today is a good day to go for a bike ride”. When there is crap on the road or the weather is crappy, GET THE FUCK OFF THE ROAD. You might think you’re saving the envionment, but by the time the cops, and ambulance comes to take your broken and bloodied body to the hospital (if you’re lucky) or the morgue (if you’re not), exactly what did you save?
bro tim- hahaha
That’s the best part Kernalbob. They won’t need to fuck themselves… someone else will do it for them, rightly so.
one less idiot goon on a bike for the rest of us.
Honestly I don’t think bicyclists, pedestrians and drivers actually understand the rules of the road here, nor do they apply common sense to any of their actions. Picture this one. A bicyclist in the middle lane of Bedford highway, just past the kempt road, windsor street intersection, you know when it splits off into 3 lanes, 2 go straight and one turns right. For one, what the hell were you doing there in that section of bedford highway to begin with? Was there any common sense involved in that decision of yours?!
Its not a “highway”. The cyclist was probably going to work. Slow the fuck down and figure it out.
The section between MSVU and Windsor St. is probably in the Top 5 of “Shittiest Place to (Legally) Ride a Bike in Halifax”
What pisses me off the most is when a woman tells you to stop riding on the sidewalk. Like she will mouth-whisper-smile, “You should be on the road”. Ok super-cop/mom.