{"id":292,"date":"2012-01-21T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgc.co\/2012\/01\/addendum-ii-beyond-stupid-or-maybe-warnie-is-just-another-moron-with-an-innate-and-incoherent-hatred-of-cyclists\/"},"modified":"2012-01-21T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T02:31:00","slug":"addendum-ii-beyond-stupid-or-maybe-warnie-is-just-another-moron-with-an-innate-and-incoherent-hatred-of-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2012\/01\/21\/addendum-ii-beyond-stupid-or-maybe-warnie-is-just-another-moron-with-an-innate-and-incoherent-hatred-of-cyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"Addendum II: Beyond Stupid…or…Maybe Warnie is just another moron with an innate and incoherent hatred of cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"
We sat at the red light together and when they turned green we all crossed. He came up behind and jolted me alert with a good loud honk from his commercial van’s horn. I looked up curiously at the van’s receding rear window wondering if perhaps I knew the guy. It hadn’t seemed like a friendly honk but it’s hard to tell one honk from another. I caught up with him at a pedestrian crossing whereupon he slid down the window and abused me, saying, among other things, “What you did was illegal.”<\/p>\n
I tried hard to think back. What did he have one me? I couldn’t think of anything in the immediate past. Maybe he saw me steal those cotter pins from K-Mart when I was 12. I knew that stuff would come back and haunt me one day.<\/p>\n
But no. According to this guy, what I’d done wrong was pass the three or four cars sitting at the red light and position myself in the bike lane next to them at the front of the lights. Okay…I might have weaved. Obviously a staunch supporter of Warnie<\/a> like myself should have known better. In my defense: there were cars in the bike lane.<\/p>\n Anyhoo. The van driver felt the need to drive along beside me, lean across his wife and yell torrents of abuse at me. Which I accepted with good grace of course. You know, I had weaved. And I am sorry. It’s just that I haven’t had the “logic bi-pass surgery” yet and to me it just makes sense and feels so natural to pull up at the front of the lights. Lobotomies <\/a>are simple procedures that used to be done for out-patients and I’m pretty sure I can do it myself if I’m careful. Then I’ll be right.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\nA ballpoint pen shoved through the nose aughta do it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | |