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From: fish@ihlpg.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
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Subject: Re: Bicycles, Violence and Hatred
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 11:00:41 EDT
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> Gee, this discussion leaves me a bit depressed.
> I used to like to think that those who rode bikes were at least a
> bit more environmentally conscious.  This included the personalities
> of those who bicycled.  I've seen other riders yell [what I regard
> as] needless obsenities at cars [not too close, but windows open].


***     AC  T              YOUR     AGE ***

Last week I was riding along one of our remoter country roads.  Hearing
a (*> sigh <*) horn behind me, I gestured for the car to pass, without
squeezing over any further than the two feet of road I was already
using.  A woman in the front seat of the car yelled "GET OVER! in an
angry voice, to which I promptly replied "F___ YOU!," which is my standard
reply to that directive, especially when there is no oncoming traffic and
plenty of room to pass.

As for the "needlessness" of the obscenity, it makes me feel a whole heck
of a lot better, and serves to inform the public that I'm not going to
take any crap like that just because I'm trying to get some exercise. I
signal my turns and stop for red lights, and I've got as much right to 
use the roads as anybody else.  If I'm going to get yelled at by people
who are annoyed at losing three seconds of  their precious time, I'm
going to yell back with the foulest invective I can muster.  I used to be
mellower, but after getting yelled at, honked at, and run off the road
a few hundred times, I'm a bit less affable.
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