Quote Originally Posted by zoom-zoom View Post
I fear that you are correct. I agree that it likely has nothing to do with cyclists...we're just an easy target. But happy people don't feel the need to be aggressive and nasty to strangers.
I find that people are just not happy. I'm no sociologist, just 15 years taking call after call after.... No scientific record or study of this such as: numeric increase and type of swearing, number of manager takeovers ... but it's noticable. People are generally meaner now.

Treating others as you would want to be treated is the stuff that makes the world turn better, that's been my rule. And at least if stuff does not go well it gives me "somewhere to go". If you just come on my line screaming, cursing and swearing .... where do we go from there?

Same's true in biking and driving, at least I wish.