Quote Originally Posted by MartianDestiny View Post
My new favorite is giving the 3 finger salute (now that our 3 foot law is in effect)(
Someone else uses that? Cool. I alternated between 3 fingers in the style of the 1-finger salute when really mad to a 3-fingered royal hand wave when it seemed to be a clueless driver.

But I'm currently in a complacent stage and just ignore the cars that pass too close. I find that I go in cycles (pun, not intended). Chasing, screaming, saluting, waving and, as now, just ignoring.

Today, cars don't respect cars on the road and, sadly, if they don't respect another one of "them" they surely aren't going to respect one of us.

I used to hope that our local cyclist that rides with cameras and reports bad drivers to the police with video taped evidence would catch the worst offenders, but the local police just don't care. The last time when the cyclist was run off the road and the car/driver caught on camera, the cyclist got the ticket and the court upheld it. Very sad state of affairs here.

So, yeah, today I'd probably ignore it. But other days I'd probably have swung past what you did and confronted the driver directly with my best sailor profanity.

You did a nice compromise. And the driver got the message. Consider that a victory.