On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:05:36 -0700, (Tom Keats)
wrote:

And although I ride bike,
I don't wanna get in your way, and I like it when
you don't get in mine. We can get along quite nicely.
After all, we're all just human beans. Sometimes we
do real good, and sometimes we have brain-farts and
we unintentionally screw up. Forgiveness &
understanding works good. I dunno. I've seen a lot
of rotten behaviours from people on bikes, and people
in cars. But I've seen a lot of of nice behaviours
from people, too. There /is/ hope for humanity :-)

(Uh, do you realize you're cross-posting to about 5 other groups, Tom? Just
wondered ...)

Anyway...I was riding some suburban back roads on Sunday and came up over a
rise leading to a nice downhill to a four-way stop. In front of me was
another hill that went up to a dead end.

At the four-way stop you can only get a bird's-eye view of the run-up to
the other roads from where I was - I could see for several hundred yards on
all three roads.

So I decide, since it's near the end of my ride to just accelerate down
this hill and up the other one, kind of give myself a whoop-de-doo. Mind
you it was a Sunday afternoon and nobody was in sight except this guy
behind me a few dozen yards.

What does he do? He leans on the horn as I zoom through my stopsign and I
look in the mirror, wondering what the problem was. Well he gets down to
the four-way and he runs the stop himself, turning right.

Maybe he was celebrating with me, but I doubt it. What's the big problem -
especially since he ran the sign himself. Sheesh.

jj