So last night I went on the group ride. Since it is getting dark earlier these days I decided to cut out one of the loops on the ride to get back earlier. So I'm all alone riding about 4 miles into the ride when a car drives by me and throws food out the window at me. This is the first time this has happened. Other people have said that they have had beer bottles thrown at them. I proceeded to do something extremely stupid. I fipped them the bird. It was just an instinct but I immediately regreted it because as I stated before I was all alone on this stretch of road. Usually a cyclist will ride by every few seconds but I had taken a different route to cut down the mileage of my ride last night so absolutely nobody else was out there with me.

This proceeded to ruin my ride. I spent the rest of my ride feeling so lonely out there and for the first time worrying about my safety.

Now today at work when I told the story to a couple of non-cyclist co-workers they actually had the nerve to go into how annoying cyclist can be and that the people in the car had probably just had it with cyclist and that is why they threw the food at me. Can you believe that?! As if I deserved what I got. So, now here I sit trying not to cry and not lose all faith in humanity.