Hogging the road

[tulip]

Wow, what a discussion!

Here's what I got out of the original post that I haven't seen mentioned yet: Featuretile took the rider to be a snoot because she wasn't friendly at the mailbox. This may or may not be the case. Maybe she's shy. I often get considered a snoot, when really I'm just shy. Maybe she was a biatch, so what? Move on.

Because Featurelite took here to be a snoot, she wasn't too pleased to be stuck behind her on the road. If the rider was more outgoing and fun, would Featurelite be more patient with her on the road? I have no idea, but it would seem reasonable.

Two lessons:
1. be friendly; people will give you more of a break later on. Us shy people just have to deal with it. Biatchy people shouldn't be so biatchy.

2. Try not to get miffed at someone you don't know because they do not meet your expectations.

(all other discussion points are valid, on both sides, although I tend to think that being stuck behind a descending cyclist for a couple of miles is no big deal and the driver should give the cyclist plenty of room and take a deep breath)

Come back, Featuretile! I like you, even though I might not agree with you on this post. But you were there and we weren't so we got off on tangents. Many of us have been in terrible accidents and so feel the need to defend our right to ride unscathed. As jobob has attested, and some others too (myself included), helicopters and trauma centers are not really fun places to end up.

(pass the pound cake, please)