please excuse me, i am about to rant.
i cannot believe the fucking drivers on this campus. i just came within a foot of being sprawled on the pavement after bouncing off the hood of a car that came roaring out of the rains parking lots as i was riding down escondido road. in the bike lane. and i had the right of way, i might add. and as required by law, i have a headlamp on my bike and it was turned on and shining quite brightly since i just replaced the batteries right before spring break. not to mention that the woman driving had a stop sign.
she appeared to be slowing down, but then hit the gas and came peeling out of the driveway. seeing that she wasn’t stopping, i grabbed my rear brakes, hard. my rear tire began to skid and so i grabbed the front brakes, at this point deciding that given the choices of 1) falling spectacularly off my bike or 2) being nailed by this car, i’d rather go over the handlebars and take my chances of landing semi-safely on the asphalt. fortunately for me i guess, the idiot woman finally saw me straining to stop, and hit her brakes, coming to a stop within a foot of my front tire. all this happens within about three seconds, but at least i’m still in one piece.
the final straw? as i’m standing there clenching my brakes for dear life, heart pounding, mouth open, staring wide-eyed through the driver’s window at the blonde moron inside, she has the nerve to shake her head and glare at me as if it were my fault! that’s right. she shook her head impudently, glared, and then–still not realizing that she didn’t and still doesn’t have the right of way–accelerated past me.
what a bitch. what an idiot. if i had been thinking straight, i might have gotten her license plate number in hopes of at least reporting the incident. instead, i was just thankful to not be sprawled on the road bleeding.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! i am going to go attempt to calm down.
