Thanks for the link to the wrist thingies- I may pick some of them up.

We tend to get frustrated with drivers, but I know I never paid as much attention to cyclists until I was a cyclist. I was always courteous, but now I very specifically look for them, and I don't think I did that before. You have to try to view the world as a nice, but non-cycling and non-understanding-cycling driver, and make ourselves more visible to them. As for the jerks- they are just out to be jerks and little can be done! Thanks for the anecdote- it is a good reminder. And I am very glad you didn't spill!

That said- you would think when a driver sees a cyclist or a ped in the rain, they would be a bit more courteous than normal- like "oh, here I am in my warm car, all snug and dry and that poor soul is out in the cold rain, let me give them the right of way and lots of room" but instead I think it is just "it is raining and yucky out, so I am all the more in a hurry to get where I am going- that cyclist/ped is a darn fool and should just take what is coming to her". That bugs me!