I live in what most would consider to be a tourist city. Although my school is the main college there; it's not a college town - but rather, the college has many, small buildings spread out throughout the city.
(this is exactly what my bike looks like)
Biking is a common mode of transportation to get from place to place. It's convenient, cheap, and fast.
BUT NOT IF YOU GET ME KILLED WITH YOUR HORRIBLE BIKING SKILLS.
Okay, I never got my driver's license. Blah, blah, laugh it up, I have my reasons. But I did some research before I got here about biking safety. I'm not saying I'm an expert, but I tried. BUT apparently no one else did.
SHIT BIKING:
- Weaving in and out of cars like a bumper car
- Experiencing apparent color blindness and going at red lights (EVEN IF NO ONE'S THERE)
- alternating between the street and the sidewalk (that's just a big WTF to me)
- Cutting off me, A FELLOW BIKER
- Riding through squares and on the sidewalk...?
- Not yielding to anything because you think, "fuck it, I'm a bike, bitch".
It's bad enough to have to worry about being flattened by a bus like I'm playing Mario Kart, but I don't need your stupid ass messing me up as well. When will people stop thinking they own everything?
In NYC they have started giving out tickets to bikers that run red lights, I know this because my painting teacher was bitching about it this morning because he got a ticket.
ReplyDeleteBREAKIN' THE LAW
BREAKIN' THE LAW
As they should.
ReplyDeleteI got so flustered today after taking a wrong turn that I accidentally made an illegal turn on red. I got confused about what was right and wrong and nearly killed myself in oncoming traffic.
I definitely deserved a ticket for being so ridiculously flustered and stupid.