Share The Road
Yesterday when I was getting ready to leave, Kiara was already on her way to my office to pick up Shinto and me. She called a few minutes before I was shutting down to tell me that the roads in our area had been shut down for a bicycle race. This was about 5:30. I ask her where she could get to, and she told me that she could get to the intersection by my office, but not through it to my parking lot. I told her to hang out there, and Shinto and I would be down as soon as we could to meet her there.
We shut down our system, packed our stuff, and headed out. I met Shinto outside, and told him that we needed to walk around the building to the intersection. We got there, and I saw Kiara hanging out in the parking lot across the street, but her car was moving. I waved at her, but I didn’t think that she saw me. We decided to head down the road on foot to meet up with her at the entrance to the parking lot.
As we were crossing the street, several cars came by and tried to make various turns on the main street that feeds into our office complex. Race volunteers (none of them cops from what I could tell, at least, no uniforms) ran in front of the cars to make them stop. They were horribly rude, and yelling at everyone to tell them where they could and could not go. It was a total mess.
About the time we got to the entrance of the parking lot across the street, Kiara called me, and told me that she had managed to get into our office building’s parking lot. That’s when I told her where I was at, and she came to pick us up.
I see signs all the time telling me to “Share The Road” with bicyclists, but they seem totally unwilling to share the road with drivers. In the area of our office building, there are dozens (sometimes up to a 100) riders in huge groups riding around the roads. They clump together in huge groups, and most of the time they tend to run the red lights as if the rules of the road do not apply to them.
I’m thinking that it’s time that we take the roads back. I’m going to stop sharing the road with these arrogant bastards. I’m going to start crowding them, making no room for them, and generally being as ass towards them.
If I have to share, then so do they.
