the itch...
there is a new movement in madison called ghostbikes . seems like a good thing...bike awareness is great but unfortunately i have some complaints. first off, there is another project with a very similar url called ghost bike in san francisco. i actually had remembered the url as the latter and went there first...and got really confused.
second, it may be my imaginiation but it seems like i've gotten a little more agression from the drivers the past couple days. for instance, i hadn't been on my bike for more than 5 minutes yesterday when white truck guy blasted his horn at me. he probably was giving me the finger...but i couldn't see it through his tinted window. you know white truck guy...loud pipes, tinted glass, big tires, small penis....it's all about the compensation. and everytime i wave for them to stop so we can talk about it they just keep on driving. i will say there are far fewer white truck guys in madison relative to marshfield.
i think maybe drivers are thinking the same people that do critical mass do this. critical mass is when a bunch of hippy bikers jam up the roads by ignoring the rules of the road...seems like a real crappy way to create good will and good awareness with drivers.
the thing of it is, there are always going to be idiots. that is never going to change. but, in my humble opinion, critical mass takes the people 'on the fence' and pushes them over the edge. road rage style (like, lets say that someone gets held up by the 'bikers' and are made late for work...seems like that would create a chip on one's shoulder). sorry, i'm for bikes but against critical mass.
sorry for the rant...not a very good one at that. convoluted. i guess i won't be calling jim rome anytime soon.
our boy was a maniac this morning...sprinting up and down the stairs. totally being a puppy. of course the only morning he doesn't lounge around is the morning robin is trying to get to work early...
and finally, scotty called me last night from the wrigley field area to rub in the fact that he was going to the brewer/cub tilt (and that he was drinking fat tire). i watched from my living room....the sunset was amazing, that would've been a great game to be at. and...the brewers manufactured nearly all of their runs...with a ton of help from the crappy cubs. 3 or 4 sac bunts all yeilding runs...that team is slowly maturing into something for the ages...just probably not this year (although they are only 5 games behind st. louis).
whew, i need to shut this one down.
second, it may be my imaginiation but it seems like i've gotten a little more agression from the drivers the past couple days. for instance, i hadn't been on my bike for more than 5 minutes yesterday when white truck guy blasted his horn at me. he probably was giving me the finger...but i couldn't see it through his tinted window. you know white truck guy...loud pipes, tinted glass, big tires, small penis....it's all about the compensation. and everytime i wave for them to stop so we can talk about it they just keep on driving. i will say there are far fewer white truck guys in madison relative to marshfield.
i think maybe drivers are thinking the same people that do critical mass do this. critical mass is when a bunch of hippy bikers jam up the roads by ignoring the rules of the road...seems like a real crappy way to create good will and good awareness with drivers.
the thing of it is, there are always going to be idiots. that is never going to change. but, in my humble opinion, critical mass takes the people 'on the fence' and pushes them over the edge. road rage style (like, lets say that someone gets held up by the 'bikers' and are made late for work...seems like that would create a chip on one's shoulder). sorry, i'm for bikes but against critical mass.
sorry for the rant...not a very good one at that. convoluted. i guess i won't be calling jim rome anytime soon.
our boy was a maniac this morning...sprinting up and down the stairs. totally being a puppy. of course the only morning he doesn't lounge around is the morning robin is trying to get to work early...
and finally, scotty called me last night from the wrigley field area to rub in the fact that he was going to the brewer/cub tilt (and that he was drinking fat tire). i watched from my living room....the sunset was amazing, that would've been a great game to be at. and...the brewers manufactured nearly all of their runs...with a ton of help from the crappy cubs. 3 or 4 sac bunts all yeilding runs...that team is slowly maturing into something for the ages...just probably not this year (although they are only 5 games behind st. louis).
whew, i need to shut this one down.
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