Fat F*cks to the left of me, idiots to the right, here I am: stuck in the
middle with you....
Besides, I'm not fat. I'm big-boned.
Or is that what he meant about the athletic supporter?
Sorry, just trying to parade on your rain.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: HOFLists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:34 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Idiots in Traffic, Fat F*cks and Bikes on the Left.
:
:
: OKAy - I'm vented.
:
: Just got into work - I ride my bike. I ride a little over six
: miles in to the Back Bay area of Boston (busy, city streets).
:
: I'm riding down Com Ave (Commonwealth Avenue for the non
: Bostonians) which is a large avenue split by a wide park
: (basically two one-way streets. I'm going to turn left at the
: next block (another one-way street). I'm always with traffic and
: I ALWAYS obey every traffic ordinance on my bike (red lights, use
: my hand signals, etc) - so much so that I tend to drive other
: cyclists crazy.
:
: So, anyway: I'm riding slowly along nearing the next intersection
: (it's a red light) when a guy (a seemingly upper-middle class guy
: in a newish SUV) pulls extremely to the left cutting me off. He
: then yells out the window "Get to right! Idiots like you give
: bikes a bad name!".
:
: I responded (at first pretty calmly, he was worried about the
: "name of bikes" after all): "Actually on a one-way street it's
: legal for me to be on the left if I'm making a left-hand turn"
:
: (It is legal in MA for a bike to ride on the left or the right on
: a one-way street, whichever is safer. It's the same law that
: covers legal "lefts on red" when going from one one-way street to
: another. Actually it's perfectly legal for me to take up a whole
: lane of traffic... but I try to be accomodating and not slow
: anybody down.)
:
: He responds: "Get to the right you fat f*ck!" (note, please, that
: he didn't use the asterisk).
:
: I'm not that proud, I respond: "Shit-head."
:
: He replies (Ironically): "So now you're name calling!"
:
: I replied (childishly): "I think you started it by calling me fat."
:
: He retorts: "No I called you a fat f*ck!"
:
: I answer: "If you'd like you get out you can see a fat f*ck put
: his foot in your ass!"
:
: He answers: "Sure, let's do that you pile of crap!"
:
: I get off my bike and stand up (I AM a big fat bastard mind you,
: but I'm an IMPOSING big fat bastard... there are 300lb guys and
: then there are 300lb guys that can still ride a bike 12 miles a day).
:
: Apparently he reconsiders because he speeds away yelling "Get an
: athletic support you fat f*ck!" (I'm still puzzeling over that
: one... it's not like the boys had come out to play or anything.)
:
: So basically my day is effectively stained. Actually it was nice
: in a sense: right after this two guys in a beat-up van puuled up
: next to me and said "Forget him... if he had gotten out he would
: have had all three of us to deal with". I thanked them for their
: show of support (support from a stranger - or two - definately
: takes the edge off in these scenarios).
:
: Jim Davis
:
:
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