On Friday afternoon, I rode from my office over to Heather’s office to go with her to the MS society so that she could pickup her Highlander to use during Bike MS. It was, for the mosty part, a very uneventful ride. Quiet streets (except for one or two). I did, however, have one incident.

As I was sitting at a red stoplight (two lanes going in my direction of travel, one was turn only (left), and the other lane was straight and right turn). A car pulled up behind me and honked. I waved “hello” over my shoulder. He honked again, and again I waved. Wash, rinse and repeat, until I turned around and looked at him. It was a car with 4 high school kids in it. The front seat passenger climbs out the window, and sitting on the edge of the door starts yelling at me. After about 15 seconds, I give him a “your number one” salute, and turn around. The light turned a couple of seconds later, I continued on my way, and the schoolers turned right. I however, was pissed. There is no way that he would have reacted like that to a car sitting at the light. He would have simply sat, like the good little sheeple that he was, and waited for the light to change. The fact that becasue I was on a bike I for some reason have less of a right to the road than he does simply chaps my backside.

There seriously needs to be some further driver’s education on what the laws are and how a motorist is supposed to behave around other vehicles. Bicycles included.