It makes me mad when...

[Jiffer]

Wow ... I guess I'm blessed to live in an area that is pretty friendly toward cyclists. For the most part, I encounter the opposite. Drivers who are extra cautious around cyclists. Sometimes irritatingly cautious, in fact, like when you are expecting them to go, but they don't because they're being careful around you and then you have to stop and unclip when you otherwise wouldn't have.

I've had one negative experience with a driver, which was a complete crack up. One of our first times on the tandem we're going down a road with two wide open lanes on our side of the street. We're in one going a pretty decent speed down hill and a lady, who doesn't think she should have to move over into the other wide open lane, passes us slowly in her convertible yelling, "Get in the bike lane!" Dh responds with, "We are! Read your DMV manual!"j

There wasn't even an actual bike lane on that street.

But, like I said, over all we seem to be blessed here with drivers who are pretty curteous to cyclists.

[Deanna]

...some lazy jerk in his big white truck rolls down his automatic window just long enough to yell at me to stay in the bike lane when I AM in the bike lane. Madder still when the apparently blind, moron driver rolls up the automatic window before I have the chance to point out how stupid his comment is.

[lauraelmore1033]

I thought we were known for having good taste in beer up here. I guess not? Shameful!!!

This IS Everett, we're talking about...

[teigyr]

This IS Everett, we're talking about...

oh....we tried to ride there once and kept getting lost on the Interurban I also went to a hockey game there once and to be honest there were many people with mullets and it WAS difficult to get good beer there!

So the answer is come down here to ride. Microbrew bottles don't shatter quite so easily.

[teigyr]

...some lazy jerk in his big white truck rolls down his automatic window just long enough to yell at me to stay in the bike lane when I AM in the bike lane. Madder still when the apparently blind, moron driver rolls up the automatic window before I have the chance to point out how stupid his comment is.

actually we had one (though I believe his window wasn't automatic) yell...."this is my piece of asphalt!"

There were many insulting things that could have been said. I, alas, half-heartedly flipped him off. I believe DH was more colorful.

[lauraelmore1033]

oh....we tried to ride there once and kept getting lost on the Interurban I also went to a hockey game there once and to be honest there were many people with mullets and it WAS difficult to get good beer there!

So the answer is come down here to ride. Microbrew bottles don't shatter quite so easily.

Ha! There are a lot of people in Everett in Mullet Denial. (Even DH who swears he never had a mullet...). That interurban trail is tricky to navigate until you realize that in certain places you are expected to continue riding on the sidewalk. As for good beer, we do actually have some; Scuttlebut is nice, as well as The Flying Pig. But those bottles are probably a lot harder to shatter.

Oh, I just thought of another thing that makes me mad, having come back from a ride with DH: People who park in the bike lanes! GRRR!