Dangerous times...

Dangerous times indeed. I remember the day I decided to NEVER own a
car again. It was over a year ago when I was walking to work. At a
stop light I waited for the light to turn green and when it did I
started to cross. Some moron impatient as hell turned left at high
speed cutting off two lanes of traffic and almost running me over.

A little shaken I continue on. At the NEXT light exact same thing.
(fyi the time was approximately 3:30 on a September afternoon and
clear) By now I am fuming at the cagers. I crossed a parking lot at
the mall next to work and I see another cager hit two parked cars with
a large crunch and the sound of shattering plastic.

Since I had driven in T.O. a few times and escaped with minor ulcers. I
decided on the spot never to own a vehicle in such dangerous times .
:-)

Needless to say having found the joys of biking again I don't really
miss being caged. (well on those cold February nights just a bit.)

"Paladin 3000" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Dangerous times indeed. I remember the day I decided to NEVER own a
car again. It was over a year ago when I was walking to work. At a
stop light I waited for the light to turn green and when it did I
started to cross. Some moron impatient as hell turned left at high
speed cutting off two lanes of traffic and almost running me over.

A little shaken I continue on. At the NEXT light exact same thing.
(fyi the time was approximately 3:30 on a September afternoon and
clear) By now I am fuming at the cagers. I crossed a parking lot at
the mall next to work and I see another cager hit two parked cars with
a large crunch and the sound of shattering plastic.

Since I had driven in T.O. a few times and escaped with minor ulcers. I
decided on the spot never to own a vehicle in such dangerous times .
:-)

Needless to say having found the joys of biking again I don't really
miss being caged. (well on those cold February nights just a bit.)

yesterday (sunday) was bad. the sun was out and so were people of their
minds...every friggin corner some nut job is pulling sudden u-ey, or
flinging door or driving in the bike lane or not looking and i felt like i
was in rome! but thanks goodness i was on my bike easily avoiding every
crazy cager.
*rant warning*
i am starting to get more vicious about cars myself. i drive about ten miles
a week, but trying hard to quit (wish my wife would see it my way 🙂).
seeing at work yesterday a 2YO boy who got his head run over (carotid artery
severed) was enough to make me just [censored] as hell. what's the number one
cause of traffic fatailties? people driving!!! what is it now? about 50K a
year in the us? they're everywhere and taking over. taking all the space in
the city and bringing violence across the world, insulating us from each
other and we spend more and more time in our metal cage. all i hear from
folks who could otherwise curb their driving habit is ...but...but...but....
ahhh! rant over.

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:25:23 -0400,
<[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
concluded:

Quoted message said:

And also I know four people now with broken bones: one woman who was
hit by a car, broken collarbone and wrist. One guy who crashed at a
race and broke his collarbone; one downhiller o broke his during a
practice run and a bmxer, same thing. Lucky I wasn't added to that
list!

Sunday, at the East Van Chopper Fest and Car-Free Street Party on
Commercial Drive, I danced with two women on crutches. One pedestrian
and one cyclist victim of inattentive drivers. They were impressed
that I'd broken my own leg.

A friend broke the windshield of a left hook mini-van with his right
arm last Friday. He just has a bruise today but he was pretty sore
when I saw him a few hours after it happened. Bike's okay.
--
zk

greggery peccary said:

"Paladin 3000" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Dangerous times indeed. I remember the day I decided to NEVER own a
car again. It was over a year ago when I was walking to work. At a
stop light I waited for the light to turn green and when it did I
started to cross. Some moron impatient as hell turned left at high
speed cutting off two lanes of traffic and almost running me over.

A little shaken I continue on. At the NEXT light exact same thing.
(fyi the time was approximately 3:30 on a September afternoon and
clear) By now I am fuming at the cagers. I crossed a parking lot at
the mall next to work and I see another cager hit two parked cars with
a large crunch and the sound of shattering plastic.

Since I had driven in T.O. a few times and escaped with minor ulcers. I
decided on the spot never to own a vehicle in such dangerous times .
:-)

Needless to say having found the joys of biking again I don't really
miss being caged. (well on those cold February nights just a bit.)

yesterday (sunday) was bad. the sun was out and so were people of their
minds...every friggin corner some nut job is pulling sudden u-ey, or
flinging door or driving in the bike lane or not looking and i felt like i
was in rome! but thanks goodness i was on my bike easily avoiding every
crazy cager.
*rant warning*
i am starting to get more vicious about cars myself. i drive about ten miles
a week, but trying hard to quit (wish my wife would see it my way 🙂).
seeing at work yesterday a 2YO boy who got his head run over (carotid artery
severed) was enough to make me just [censored] as hell. what's the number one
cause of traffic fatailties? people driving!!! what is it now? about 50K a
year in the us? they're everywhere and taking over. taking all the space in
the city and bringing violence across the world, insulating us from each
other and we spend more and more time in our metal cage. all i hear from
folks who could otherwise curb their driving habit is ...but...but...but....
ahhh! rant over.

I intern as a consulting firm that is about as big as can be to be still
a small company (if that makes any sense). They just moved out to the
'burbs, so I'm commuting 25 miles a day via car. The sprawl in Atlanta
is really nasty and if I stick around here after I graduate, I want
nothing to do with it.

That said, I honestly think I'd quit the small consulting firm to work
for (gasp) a much major company that has a building downtown. That way
I could have a 15 - 25 min bike ride to work or take the train/bus if
the summer rain is really coming down (like today).

Oh god the rain...driving is really going to suck today.

--
Paul M. Hobson
Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.underthecouch.org
..:you may want to fix my email
address before you send anything:.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:18:12 -0700, Zoot Katz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:25:23 -0400,
<[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
concluded:

Quoted message said:

And also I know four people now with broken bones: one woman who was
hit by a car, broken collarbone and wrist. One guy who crashed at a
race and broke his collarbone; one downhiller o broke his during a
practice run and a bmxer, same thing. Lucky I wasn't added to that
list!

Sunday, at the East Van Chopper Fest and Car-Free Street Party on
Commercial Drive, I danced with two women on crutches. One pedestrian
and one cyclist victim of inattentive drivers. They were impressed
that I'd broken my own leg.

A friend broke the windshield of a left hook mini-van with his right
arm last Friday. He just has a bruise today but he was pretty sore
when I saw him a few hours after it happened. Bike's okay.

Man, he must have been really [censored] to break the window. I've thought
about doing it to several cars but I'm too restrained. It will
probably give me ulcers.

Seriously though, those windshields are tough. It's amazing that he
got hit hard enough to break a window and not end up in the hospital.

The closest that I've come to something like that was getting hit in
the shoulder by a protruding mirror. The driver was very apologetic
and promised to give bikes more room in the future.

Now, what is a "left hook mini van"? Nothing to do with an East Van I
assume?

"greggery peccary" <.@.> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

yesterday (sunday) was bad. the sun was out and so were people of their
minds...

Yeah! The weather was great for biking, and there were tons out there.
Amazingly, we were not buzzed by any cars on this ride, but the bikes!!!
Running stop signs almost right into us, riding slowly (ascending) taking up
the whole road so other bikes couldn't get by, riding on the wrong side of a
narrow road. It was one of those days I was wishing the weather would get
worse so only the hardy would be out riding.

greggery peccary' .@. said:

"Paladin 3000" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Dangerous times indeed. I remember the day I decided to NEVER own a
car again. It was over a year ago when I was walking to work. At a
stop light I waited for the light to turn green and when it did I
started to cross. Some moron impatient as hell turned left at high
speed cutting off two lanes of traffic and almost running me over.

A little shaken I continue on. At the NEXT light exact same thing.
(fyi the time was approximately 3:30 on a September afternoon and
clear) By now I am fuming at the cagers. I crossed a parking lot at
the mall next to work and I see another cager hit two parked cars with
a large crunch and the sound of shattering plastic.

Since I had driven in T.O. a few times and escaped with minor ulcers. I
decided on the spot never to own a vehicle in such dangerous times .
:-)

Needless to say having found the joys of biking again I don't really
miss being caged. (well on those cold February nights just a bit.)

yesterday (sunday) was bad. the sun was out and so were people of their
minds...every friggin corner some nut job is pulling sudden u-ey, or
flinging door or driving in the bike lane or not looking and i felt like i
was in rome! but thanks goodness i was on my bike easily avoiding every
crazy cager.
*rant warning*
i am starting to get more vicious about cars myself. i drive about ten miles
a week, but trying hard to quit (wish my wife would see it my way 🙂).
seeing at work yesterday a 2YO boy who got his head run over (carotid artery
severed) was enough to make me just [censored] as hell. what's the number one
cause of traffic fatailties? people driving!!! what is it now? about 50K a
year in the us? they're everywhere and taking over. taking all the space in
the city and bringing violence across the world, insulating us from each
other and we spend more and more time in our metal cage. all i hear from
folks who could otherwise curb their driving habit is ...but...but...but....
ahhh! rant over.

OMG, what happened to that poor kid? Did he die? HOw horrible!

I thought my rant would make me sound like a weiner, but i guess you
all understand. WHatever patience I ever had for rollerbladers is
gone. Cars do stupid things on the road, but rollerbladers are a
menace to everyone. I know one guy who says, they get one warning and
that's it! From now on I yell them out of my way. No more Ms Nice Guy.
And the next time some shmuck in a car yells at me to get on the bike
path I'll yell back that'll happen when rollerbladers are banned.
Maybe I yelled a bit too much at the guy but I was still a bit freaked
out.

what annoys me sometimes is that at certain intersections, I have to
shadow a car realizing that otherwise, no one will see me and I can
end up like a squished squirrel. At one horrible intersection, the
drivers just totally ignore the pedestrian signal and just turn left-
god forbid they wait 15 whole seconds out of their life!

Rant off... for now, grrr....I guess I am lucky that nothing happened
yesterday.

Paul Hobson said:

greggery peccary said:

"Paladin 3000" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Dangerous times indeed. I remember the day I decided to NEVER own a
car again. It was over a year ago when I was walking to work. At a
stop light I waited for the light to turn green and when it did I
started to cross. Some moron impatient as hell turned left at high
speed cutting off two lanes of traffic and almost running me over.

A little shaken I continue on. At the NEXT light exact same thing.
(fyi the time was approximately 3:30 on a September afternoon and
clear) By now I am fuming at the cagers. I crossed a parking lot at
the mall next to work and I see another cager hit two parked cars with
a large crunch and the sound of shattering plastic.

Since I had driven in T.O. a few times and escaped with minor ulcers. I
decided on the spot never to own a vehicle in such dangerous times .
:-)

Needless to say having found the joys of biking again I don't really
miss being caged. (well on those cold February nights just a bit.)

yesterday (sunday) was bad. the sun was out and so were people of their
minds...every friggin corner some nut job is pulling sudden u-ey, or
flinging door or driving in the bike lane or not looking and i felt like i
was in rome! but thanks goodness i was on my bike easily avoiding every
crazy cager.
*rant warning*
i am starting to get more vicious about cars myself. i drive about ten miles
a week, but trying hard to quit (wish my wife would see it my way 🙂).
seeing at work yesterday a 2YO boy who got his head run over (carotid artery
severed) was enough to make me just [censored] as hell. what's the number one
cause of traffic fatailties? people driving!!! what is it now? about 50K a
year in the us? they're everywhere and taking over. taking all the space in
the city and bringing violence across the world, insulating us from each
other and we spend more and more time in our metal cage. all i hear from
folks who could otherwise curb their driving habit is ...but...but...but....
ahhh! rant over.

I intern as a consulting firm that is about as big as can be to be still
a small company (if that makes any sense). They just moved out to the
'burbs, so I'm commuting 25 miles a day via car. The sprawl in Atlanta
is really nasty and if I stick around here after I graduate, I want
nothing to do with it.

That said, I honestly think I'd quit the small consulting firm to work
for (gasp) a much major company that has a building downtown. That way
I could have a 15 - 25 min bike ride to work or take the train/bus if
the summer rain is really coming down (like today).

Oh god the rain...driving is really going to suck today.

Speaking of commuting... i saw some story on the news about gas
prices. ANd they were talking about a typical LA commuter- she goes
40 MILES each way! THats 80 miles a day, I can't effing believe that!
NO wonder they have smog.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:18:12 -0700, Zoot Katz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:25:23 -0400,
<[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
concluded:

Quoted message said:

And also I know four people now with broken bones: one woman who was
hit by a car, broken collarbone and wrist. One guy who crashed at a
race and broke his collarbone; one downhiller o broke his during a
practice run and a bmxer, same thing. Lucky I wasn't added to that
list!

Sunday, at the East Van Chopper Fest and Car-Free Street Party on
Commercial Drive, I danced with two women on crutches. One pedestrian
and one cyclist victim of inattentive drivers. They were impressed
that I'd broken my own leg.

A friend broke the windshield of a left hook mini-van with his right
arm last Friday. He just has a bruise today but he was pretty sore
when I saw him a few hours after it happened. Bike's okay.

Phew.. lucky guy. THe poor woman i know who was hit also lost her
trek- it's totalled. the guy in the race is recovered now and his bike
was okay, he's hoping to race again.

A couple of weeks ago at a local crit some kid landedon his face-
those guys are insane. HE just got up and started again! But I think
he abandoned after that.

I sometimes wonder what drivers are doing with themselves when they
drive. If that guy had been looking in the direction he was driving
he'd have seen me for sure. Maybe get one of those big horns they use
at baseball games! BLAAAAT!

[email hidden] wrote:
:: On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:13:08 -0400, Paul Hobson
:: <[email hidden]> wrote:
::
::: greggery peccary wrote:
:::: "Paladin 3000" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:::: news:[email hidden]...
::::
::::: Dangerous times indeed. I remember the day I decided to NEVER
::::: own a car again. It was over a year ago when I was walking to
::::: work. At a stop light I waited for the light to turn green and
::::: when it did I started to cross. Some moron impatient as hell
::::: turned left at high speed cutting off two lanes of traffic and
::::: almost running me over.
:::::
::::: A little shaken I continue on. At the NEXT light exact same
::::: thing. (fyi the time was approximately 3:30 on a September
::::: afternoon and clear) By now I am fuming at the cagers. I
::::: crossed a parking lot at the mall next to work and I see another
::::: cager hit two parked cars with a large crunch and the sound of
::::: shattering plastic.
:::::
::::: Since I had driven in T.O. a few times and escaped with minor
::::: ulcers. I decided on the spot never to own a vehicle in such
::::: dangerous times . :-)
:::::
::::: Needless to say having found the joys of biking again I don't
::::: really miss being caged. (well on those cold February nights
::::: just a bit.)
:::::
::::
::::
:::: yesterday (sunday) was bad. the sun was out and so were people of
:::: their minds...every friggin corner some nut job is pulling sudden
:::: u-ey, or flinging door or driving in the bike lane or not looking
:::: and i felt like i was in rome! but thanks goodness i was on my
:::: bike easily avoiding every crazy cager.
:::: *rant warning*
:::: i am starting to get more vicious about cars myself. i drive about
:::: ten miles a week, but trying hard to quit (wish my wife would see
:::: it my way 🙂). seeing at work yesterday a 2YO boy who got his head
:::: run over (carotid artery severed) was enough to make me just
:::: [censored] as hell. what's the number one cause of traffic fatailties?
:::: people driving!!! what is it now? about 50K a year in the us?
:::: they're everywhere and taking over. taking all the space in the
:::: city and bringing violence across the world, insulating us from
:::: each other and we spend more and more time in our metal cage. all
:::: i hear from folks who could otherwise curb their driving habit is
:::: ...but...but...but.... ahhh! rant over.
:::
::: I intern as a consulting firm that is about as big as can be to be
::: still a small company (if that makes any sense). They just moved
::: out to the 'burbs, so I'm commuting 25 miles a day via car. The
::: sprawl in Atlanta is really nasty and if I stick around here after
::: I graduate, I want nothing to do with it.
:::
::: That said, I honestly think I'd quit the small consulting firm to
::: work for (gasp) a much major company that has a building downtown.
::: That way I could have a 15 - 25 min bike ride to work or take the
::: train/bus if the summer rain is really coming down (like today).
:::
::: Oh god the rain...driving is really going to suck today.
::
:: Speaking of commuting... i saw some story on the news about gas
:: prices. ANd they were talking about a typical LA commuter- she goes
:: 40 MILES each way! THats 80 miles a day, I can't effing believe that!
:: NO wonder they have smog.

That's nothing for LA....I knew people who did 70 miles each and every day.

[email hidden] wrote:
:: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:19:20 -0700, "greggery peccary" <.@.> wrote:
::
:::
::: "Paladin 3000" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
::: news:[email hidden]...
:::: Dangerous times indeed. I remember the day I decided to NEVER own
:::: a car again. It was over a year ago when I was walking to work.
:::: At a stop light I waited for the light to turn green and when it
:::: did I started to cross. Some moron impatient as hell turned left
:::: at high speed cutting off two lanes of traffic and almost running
:::: me over.
::::
:::: A little shaken I continue on. At the NEXT light exact same thing.
:::: (fyi the time was approximately 3:30 on a September afternoon and
:::: clear) By now I am fuming at the cagers. I crossed a parking lot
:::: at the mall next to work and I see another cager hit two parked
:::: cars with a large crunch and the sound of shattering plastic.
::::
:::: Since I had driven in T.O. a few times and escaped with minor
:::: ulcers. I decided on the spot never to own a vehicle in such
:::: dangerous times . :-)
::::
:::: Needless to say having found the joys of biking again I don't
:::: really miss being caged. (well on those cold February nights just
:::: a bit.)
::::
:::
::: yesterday (sunday) was bad. the sun was out and so were people of
::: their minds...every friggin corner some nut job is pulling sudden
::: u-ey, or flinging door or driving in the bike lane or not looking
::: and i felt like i was in rome! but thanks goodness i was on my bike
::: easily avoiding every crazy cager.
::: *rant warning*
::: i am starting to get more vicious about cars myself. i drive about
::: ten miles a week, but trying hard to quit (wish my wife would see
::: it my way 🙂). seeing at work yesterday a 2YO boy who got his head
::: run over (carotid artery severed) was enough to make me just [censored]
::: as hell. what's the number one cause of traffic fatailties? people
::: driving!!! what is it now? about 50K a year in the us? they're
::: everywhere and taking over. taking all the space in the city and
::: bringing violence across the world, insulating us from each other
::: and we spend more and more time in our metal cage. all i hear from
::: folks who could otherwise curb their driving habit is
::: ...but...but...but.... ahhh! rant over.
:::
::
:: OMG, what happened to that poor kid? Did he die? HOw horrible!
::
:: I thought my rant would make me sound like a weiner, but i guess you
:: all understand. WHatever patience I ever had for rollerbladers is
:: gone. Cars do stupid things on the road, but rollerbladers are a
:: menace to everyone. I know one guy who says, they get one warning and
:: that's it! From now on I yell them out of my way. No more Ms Nice
:: Guy. And the next time some shmuck in a car yells at me to get on
:: the bike path I'll yell back that'll happen when rollerbladers are
:: banned. Maybe I yelled a bit too much at the guy but I was still a
:: bit freaked out.
::

I suggest you not yell at folks...it can make the situation worse. You're
out there and know know these things can happen, so you're better off just
dealing with it.

:: what annoys me sometimes is that at certain intersections, I have to
:: shadow a car realizing that otherwise, no one will see me and I can
:: end up like a squished squirrel. At one horrible intersection, the
:: drivers just totally ignore the pedestrian signal and just turn left-
:: god forbid they wait 15 whole seconds out of their life!
::
:: Rant off... for now, grrr....I guess I am lucky that nothing happened
:: yesterday.

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:53:33 -0400, <[email hidden]>,

Roger Zoul said:

I suggest you not yell at folks...it can make the situation worse. You're
out there and know know these things can happen, so you're better off just
dealing with it.

[censored]!
They're scud slobs and deserve heaps of [censored] and misery for their
habitual stupidity. The more the better. They're scum on the road.

pfffft!
--
zk

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:36:34 -0400,
<[email hidden]>, dgk
<[email hidden]> wrote, in part:

Quoted message said:

Now, what is a "left hook mini van"? Nothing to do with an East Van I
assume?

"Left hook" is the maneuver by which a left turning vehicle clobbers
or nearly misses you who is going straight through. He'd been riding
in the bike lane. The driver wasn't looking for traffic in the bike
lane. I'm familiar with the area and generally move out of the bike
lane if I see opposing vehicles signalling left. I figure I'm better
off being where they're looking than where some planner thinks I
should be. (Eastbound on SW Marine Drive west of Dunbar, for locals)

Sometimes you hit a sweet spot and shatter a windscreen. I once did it
to my own car and didn't even bruise my hand.
--
zk

Zoot Katz wrote:
:: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:53:33 -0400,
:: <[email hidden]>, "Roger Zoul"
:: <[email hidden]> wrote:
::
::: I suggest you not yell at folks...it can make the situation worse.
::: You're out there and know know these things can happen, so you're
::: better off just dealing with it.
::
:: [censored]!
:: They're scud slobs and deserve heaps of [censored] and misery for their
:: habitual stupidity. The more the better. They're scum on the road.
::
:: pfffft!
:: --
:: zk

You're cuckoo, too. 🙂

ps...I get where you're coming from....

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:26:18 -0400, <[email hidden]>,

Roger Zoul said:

::: I suggest you not yell at folks...it can make the situation worse.
::: You're out there and know know these things can happen, so you're
::: better off just dealing with it.
::
:: [censored]!
:: They're scud slobs and deserve heaps of [censored] and misery for their
:: habitual stupidity. The more the better. They're scum on the road.
::
:: pfffft!
:: --
:: zk

You're cuckoo, too. 🙂

ps...I get where you're coming from....

Pumped with adrenaline is not the time for calm discussion. It's hard
to keep from screaming and doing the pepper dance.

Just remember to get witnesses.
--
zk

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:41:50 -0400,
<[email hidden]>, [email hidden]

Quoted message said:

I sometimes wonder what drivers are doing with themselves when they
drive. If that guy had been looking in the direction he was driving
he'd have seen me for sure.

Not necessarily so. Sometimes they appear to be looking but don't see
us because they're not looking for bicycles. The fizzpiddle that
backed into me looked right by me before running me down. Where
bicycles aren't commonly part of the traffic mix, scud jockeys aren't
expecting to see them, so they don't.

Quoted message said:

Maybe get one of those big horns they use
at baseball games! BLAAAAT!

AirZound is damagingly loud and (Canadian) made for bikes. It's more
recognizably imperative than bravely screaming, HEY!! But sometimes
you haven't got time, or an extra hand, for the horn.
--
zk

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

AirZound is damagingly loud and (Canadian) made for bikes. It's more
recognizably imperative than bravely screaming, HEY!! But sometimes
you haven't got time, or an extra hand, for the horn.

I have for the last few years had this fantasy of mounting a set of
semi-truck air trumpets on my bike. Not those dinky little plastic air
horns they sell at NAPA Auto Parts, but something you'd find on a
Freightliner.

..max

One of my co-workers has the horn. I know it's loud (especially
indoors) because he constantly is using it. Mostly to startle other
co-workers. :-)

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:29:35 -0700, Zoot Katz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:26:18 -0400, <[email hidden]>,

Roger Zoul said:

::: I suggest you not yell at folks...it can make the situation worse.
::: You're out there and know know these things can happen, so you're
::: better off just dealing with it.
::
:: [censored]!
:: They're scud slobs and deserve heaps of [censored] and misery for their
:: habitual stupidity. The more the better. They're scum on the road.
::
:: pfffft!
:: --
:: zk

You're cuckoo, too. 🙂

ps...I get where you're coming from....

Pumped with adrenaline is not the time for calm discussion. It's hard
to keep from screaming and doing the pepper dance.

Just remember to get witnesses.

Yeah, what's wrong with blowing off steam? THe idiot could have caused
me some injury and kept me from working. Morons yell at me all the
time when I'm actually following the directions, obeying the rules and
being conscientious!