I think I almost hit a cyclist with my car today...I didn't see him until he yelled at me.
I only feel the teeniest bit guilty, though, because he was yelling his obscenities at me as he was riding at least 10 mph against traffic on a divided 4-lane road, on the fucking sidewalk*. I wasn't looking for him because he shouldn't have been there. Jerk.
If I had been less startled and more quick-witted, I could have been one of the few drivers who has ever shouted at a cyclist to get ON the road. :)
*before anyone asks what I was doing on the sidewalk--I was turning right out of a driveway, and was just inching a bit into the crosswalk as he yelled. I had already checked for pedestrians, so there was no reason to look for anyone coming from that direction on my side of the street.
Posted by Joy at October 5, 2007 01:23 PM