I don't like angry confrontation. I don't like being called an idiot by a person on a bicycle that also did not obey the traffic rules. I'm so used to bicycling to UF that when I was driving, I completely ignored a stop sign.
I stopped short as a student went rising past. From my perspective, I wasn't even that close to him. He looked at me with wide eyes and yelled, "Woooooah", in a 'I'm-better-than-you-because-I'm-on-a-bike' way, "you have a stop sign!"
"No I don't!" I yelled out the window (because I seriously thought I didn't).
"Look right, idiot!" he shouted with his I'm-a-vegan-I-compost-and-I-am-an-art-history-major glare.
Guuuh. Sorry, I'm just upset. Even though it was mostly my fault, I kind of think he should have owned up to it a little. I'm pretty sure cyclist's have to follow the traffic laws too. I always look both ways when I roll past a stop sign on a bike. Not the safest method, but it saves a lot of dismounting and mounting again. And I wouldn't call someone an idiot for making a mistake. How is that supposed to help someone learn?
It feels good to write this out. I don't think I am an idiot, and I hate it when people call me that.
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You're not an idiot. And that is a fact. And I'm sure that guy was scared and probably pretty upset, but he still shouldn't have called you that.
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ReplyDelete"I'm-a-vegan-I-compost-and-I-am-an-art-history-major glare."
HA HA HA HA -
I can totally picture this.
Jessie- Danke. Yeah, we were both scared.
ReplyDeleteGirl Fires- I have run into a lot of kids like this in G-ville, and frankly I don't like being condemned for my love of sushi and cheese. Hehe.