roachboy

you'd think that towns would at least take care of the large rocks that get pulled out of people's gravel driveways when they pull out--or that people who own the fucking driveways would do it--it's not that hard---but out here in ruralia, it's can be a really unpleasant surprise running into a band of rocks along the shoulder leaving you nowhere to go but out into traffic that's going 50...

anyway, i think the problem is basically a dick thing--sovereign bourgeois travellers going on their desperately important journies do not take kindly to having their Progress interrupted or even slowed down by those of us who ride bikes. whatever. for the most part, i don't care about the problems people in cars might have with bikers.

but i have to say i mind less getting yelled at by idiots in cars than i mind people who talk on their fucking cell phones while driving. this seems the furthest extension of the narcissism of driving, really. most of the more dangerous situations i've found myself in--particularly riding in cities--ave involved people who turn themselves into idiot drivers by blabbing on the phone while they're at the wheel. it seems to me that whether you think of it or not, when you talk on your phone while driving you put people in danger.


as for why that happens--i doubt there's anything like a single answer.

maybe something will come to me.

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