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- From: "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Need to read : Are you an idiot?
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec30.183137.22095@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Message-ID: <2934835367.0.p00004@psilink.com>
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- Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:13:34 GMT
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- >DATE: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:31:37 GMT
- >FROM: G. E. Madine, AT&T-BL/AL, cbnewsm. <madine@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- >jasmith@admin1.memst.edu (John) writes:
- >>I see these people and some times I'd like to
- >> open my passenger door and knock them down or just run them off the
- >> road.
- >
- >What I know is that you don't really have the b**ls to act out your
- >psychotic fantasies. So you scale back. You pass rush hour cyclists
- >with plenty of clearance. You lean on your horn to politely warn them
- >of your presence (since you do not know how loud and stinky you already
- >are to bicyclists). But maybe you shake your fist a little as you go
- >by.
-
- If only it were always so. At least in my neck of the woods, this
- fellow's spiritual kinfolk *don't* always scale back. I have been
- literally run off the road once -- by a driver looking right at me and
- baring his rat-like incisors in a grotesque parody of a smile. And as
- for passing with "plenty of clearance," this idea evokes a sour laugh;
- hardly a day goes by that some dement doesn't roar around me with a
- millimeter to spare, leaning on his horn the whole time.
-
- How much does it take in the way of "b**ls" (or whatever organ is the
- seat of courage) to menace a cyclist from the safety of a metal cage? I
- have the impression that for a good many motorists, the car itself is a
- kind of prosthesis for deficiencies, real or imagined, in the same
- general anatomical area.
-
- --Michael Smith
-