OK, so yesterday and today I rode through the same exact speed monitor next to a school zone, at the same exact time. This is a 35mph zone when school's not either starting or ending. Yesterday, I get clocked going 31mph, today, 28mph. Yesterday, I think almost every single motorist who passed me through there honked at me and yelled at me to get off the road... I was going faster than your typical Sunday driver for freaks sake! Today, only ONE car honked at me and yelled to get off the road, and this was a coupla miles back before the speed monitor.
Seriously, when I go faster than a typical Sunday driver, you're gunna get all huffy at me, and when I go slower than a typical Sunday driver, you're gunna be all hunky dorey about it?
On my ride, I also go through this series of two red lights immediately following the other, and, no matter what, you will ALWAYS get stopped at the second one, and if you get stopped at the first one as well, oh well. This is true no matter how fast you go, because of the way the lights are timed, you simply cannot make it. Anyone who goes that route very often KNOWS that there's no point in accelerating when the first light turns green, yet every single time I go through there, at least one motorist decides it'll be fun to go into the right turn lane, accelerate crazily, swerve over in front of me into the left turn lane, and then squeal their brakes when they suddenly realize it's all for naught.
Finally, why do some motorists insist on taking turns at less than 1mph, and then accelerate so fast that they squeal their tires once the turn is over? For another motorist who might happen to be behind them, I suppose it won't be as much of a bother, kind of annoying, but it's not like they have to expend any extra effort to stay upright going that slow, and then even more extra effort to get moving since they weren't allowed to begin acceleration early enough.
It simply never ceases to amaze me how stupid motorists are.
BTW... I wonder if there's any way I can get a cop in trouble for using their siren and lights for the sole purpose of irritating a bicyclist? I mean, seriously, the other day on my ride, I had a cop come up behind me, follow me for a coupla minutes, turn his lights and siren on, and when I pull over and stop, he turns them off and drives away. Leaving me with a bike in topmost gear to try to get moving again on a busy road.