Cycling Tiff

I got in a tiff with one of my fellow defense-industrial complex compadres on the way back to the office from going to get coffee this afternoon. Some guy was heading down the road on a tricked out Cannondale wearing full team kit. You could tell he was way cooler than I’ll ever be since a) he was in shape, b) he was riding on a Wednesday afternoon, and c) he had all his crap in his jersey pockets instead of slung under his seat in a bag.

Anyway, the guy who had driven was waiting behind said roadie to turn left, and got exceedingly impatient as the cyclist went through the left turn lane. Having been in spandex and in the same situation many times, I came to the cyclist’s defense. After all, it is the middle of June, we were turning onto a road dedicated by the county of Rhode Island as a cycling road, and the guy even used the proper hand signal. The concensus, still, was that I was in the wrong.

Ah well. Peak Oil will put me in the right.

Posted by jank at June 23, 2004 10:35 PM