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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.politics
Subject: Re: Bicycles, Violence and Hatred
Message-ID: <1290@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 06:23:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 06:23:30 1985
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Summary: 

In article <983@vax1.fluke.UUCP> tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee) writes:
>Secondly, and I'm not accussing anyone of doing this, but I haven't
>had nearly the problem with motorists since I stopped passing them on
>the right.  It seems motorists get annoyed when a bicyclist passes them
>on the right (while waiting for a stoplight for instance) after this
>motorist has just legally passed the bicycle.  I personally don't blame
>the motorist.  

I don't understand... what's *wrong* with rolling up to the stop light
past the stopped cars?  If the only problem is that some drivers resent
my doing so, tough shits.

I occasionally encounter drivers who are too close to the curb, so that
there's no room for me to get past them while they're stopped.  Before
I decided that growing old was a worthwhile goal, I used to go around
these guys *on* *the* *left*, and then when the light changed I'd get
in front of them in the middle of the lane, and -g-o- -s-l-o-w- for
about 10-15 seconds.  Just enough to get even without (I hoped) getting
the driver angry enough to deliberately run me over.
--
	David Canzi

Man: An animal [whose]... chief occupation is the extermination of
other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such
insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
	Ambrose Bierce