This makes me scared to ride my bike in my area.

"dear 40-50 year old driver
of an old white minivan
with wife in passenger seat reaching back
in an attempt to block out the cursing and sheer confusion of a bike rider
from reaching your 3 kids ears and eyes

who then continued to chase you down
only to have you slip out of his fingers on a straight away on constitution blvd

i guess i would just like to know
why?
why did you pull up directly behind me on the road
and lay on your horn
as if to prove something
what could i do?
magically float in the air
so as to avoid the car traveling 35mph behind me
narrowly slowing down
just short of actually running me over?
again i repeat
what do you have to prove
i am doing nothing wrong
there is no bike lane
so i stay to the right hand lane
i even began riding
when little to no traffic was on the road
[you were one of two cars to pass me while i was on first colonial]

if anything
i get it
little biker
big man
you have a car
so you are better
i get it
with the horn
that was, gosh, i mean you really showed me
honking that horn.
just
really good man. scared me a little.
until i realized, there was nothing i could do

now this next action of yours
[and now i would like to apologize for flicking you off]
you see
when you honky tonky on your horn for 35 seconds
it gets annoying to someone, who
can do absolutely nothing about the situation
why did you continue
to ride up next to me?
you hit my elbow with your mirror
and then continued to run me
off of the road
yes
off of the road.
and do you realize we were going around 15 miles an hour at this point?
have you ever seen someone get hit by a car before?
if you have
i will ask you,
why did you do that?
you know, there was no one else around
you could have just as easily
signaled
gone into the left lane
and passed me
just as the 95 year old man did
that passed me seconds before you
see?
no harm done
we all got to where we were going
you safely
and with out the cries of agony and pain
of a bike rider reaching your moldable childrens ears
and
i would have reached the verizon store
without being so confused and exhausted
ready to throw up
because of the events that previously took place

i really wish
that after i got back on my bike
when you looked in your rear view mirror
and saw my face of rage
and realized i was catching up to you

i just really wish
i really do
i wish i could have rode up next to you
and asked
why?
why did you do that?
what did yo have to prove?

if i ever see you again
i will not hesitate

i will throw a wrench through every single one of your windows and slash all your tires.

way less than you did to me.

f******g a$$hole.

with love
yours truly
the raleigh record rider you mowed down on first colonial avenue


if anyone knows who this man was,
i would really like it if you could go up to him
and shake his hand
because
he nearly ended the life of a 24 year old
who was riding to verizon
to ask a question about his cell phone."