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Originally Posted by David Inc.
This reminds me--one time I had to slide to a halt to not kill a cyclist running a red light. He laughed and flipped me off, his friends waiting at the light made apologetic faces to me.
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I'm tooling along in the empty right lane and the light well ahead turns green. The car on left and van in the middle doesn't move for some reason. Must have fallen asleep.
The normal big-city thing to do would be to just gun it through. You snooze you lose right?
I slow to a stop beside the van. Glad I did. Some college kid pops out casually taking his time walking his bike across three lanes against the light not even looking. He gets in front of my truck and we lock eyes. He stops for a second as if to have a stare down protest and I lose my temper first time in a long while. I inch forward, toot my horn, yell "C'mon let's GO" out the window. He finally gets across and gives me the finger.
Hopefully that scared a little common sense into the man child and keeps him from becoming someone's future hood ornament. Some other drivers in this world wouldn't have slowed down.