If you would like to purchase a vehicle for me to drive, go ahead! Then I would happily drive a car instead of my dinky bicycle. However, right now I have 250 dollars to my name and I still need to get to work and school and back every day.
I do my best to bike AS close to that goddamn sidewalk as I can and today I had a woman honk at me and then almost slam me with her car, to turn into the Quinpool grocery store.
I’m sure that getting groceries was well worth my life.
I’m sorry I’m not fast enough. I’m sorry I take up space. But I have places to go to. Hey, maybe I think you’re a dickwad for driving a car instead of taking a bus every day. But I’m not harassing you or trying to cause you bodily harm.
It’s also illegal to bike on the sidewalk. So I guess you’re just as stuck with me as I am with you, except that I’m behaving like an adult. —Optionless
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2010.
As someone who is a pedestrian most of the time, i don’t mind sharing the sidewalk with considerate cyclists- that is, the ones who drive at an appropriate sidewalk speed and not only slow down when they encounter a pedestrian but also provide a wide birth. If i see you’re like this, i’ll do my best to provide you a ittle space too.
Tell that bitch to get fucked.
“Hey, maybe I think you’re a dickwad for driving a car instead of taking a bus every day.”
That was dumb.
depends on if she was getting ready to turn right and you cycled up behind her, passed her on the right and in front of her;if you did that then its your bad. but if you were in front of her and she was just in a hurry, then its her bad