Minority Report

I just got back home from a doctor's appointment. First I went to Scooter's across the street and locked my bike up between cars on a light pole because there's nothing else to chain it to. They also didn't have newspapers so I had to then walk across the street to the gas station. What type of coffee house doesn't sell newspapers?

After my appointment I rode back and near the trail I cut through the QT parking lot since that intersection is horrible biking through. The lot is busy so I slow to a crawl and hug the far left of the parking lot. There's a UPS truck so I crawl by and the UPS guy bolts out of the door with boxes and we collide. I said sorry and kept crawling forward and he kept walking.

There was a truck of landscapers that were staring at me. Fuck them. I shouldn't even have said sorry. It wasn't my fault. Who bolts out without looking what's there, especially in a busy parking lot? It's the same reason why riding on the sidewalk is illegal and dangerous.

It's always about how the majority is affected by the minority, though. It's always been that way in history. Like in the 90's with the riots and it wasn't a healthy dialogue to get a solution, it was just how were black people and their image and actions affecting white people. It would've been a great turning point for ignorance on all sides and bring an issue to the surface and work it out. But it doesn't work that way. It's dumb! Let's just keep to ourselves and keep the problem going.

People need to understand, too, that it's not an us-versus-them thing with bicyclists and drivers. Both sides need to respect each other. But you also can't make generalizations, especially based on ignorance and one-instances. Also realize that anyone who drives has at least a base knowledge of driving laws like lanes, traffic lights, not driving on sidewalks, etc. Bicyclists are anyone who rides a bike, which only avid cyclists or smart people know the laws. Any idiot can walk into a Wal-Mart and buy a bike - or a thrift store. It doesn't give them the applicable rules or common sense.

I meant to post pics from that Motley Crue/Poison show, but maybe later.

Bill Hoover's art show's tonight. Should be fun.