| Re: Critical Mass Tunnel Freaks
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 00:03:03 -0700, Zoot Katz <zootkatz@operamail.com>
wrote:
>Mon, 05 Jul 2004 19:14:52 -0400,
><ltnje09h1vdd0hn9q4l8mof5u4tuicrm51@4ax.com>, Luigi de Guzman
><luigi12081@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>Does it win us any support? ah, well now THERE'S a question.
>
>What sort of support and from whom?
I want motorists to respect me. I want people to get out of their
cars and think that, hey, cycling may not be such a bad idea after
all.
That's support. And I'm not going to get it by being an ******* to
them, thereby giving them carte blanche to continue justifying their
aggression towards non-automotive traffic.
>
>I just got slammed by a dozed out scud jockey (the bike's ride able
>but I ache) Right now I'm even less than my normally well disposed
>self toward our societies' blind acceptance of driver's blatant
>stupidity and flagrant deadly impunity.
Ouch. How did they get you?
When something similar happend to me in London, I was so dazed, my
mind fell back to what it thought were priorities:
1) get my road rash patched up. Luckily, I was nudged right in front
of a hospital.
2) Get my bike going agian. No biggie here--straightened the bars,
retightened the stem (lucky I was carrying the appropriate allen key
in m bag)
3) Get to the library to return the books I'd borrowed. (The original
reason for the trip)
In hindsight, I should have insisted on the police arriving and filing
an accident report. I seem to remember a bunch of passers-by asking
if I wanted to do that, but I was dizzy and buzzing on adrenaline, and
wasn't thinking right.
-Luigi
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