Someone at work is all about astrological signs and always tells me I'm the perfect Libra. Calm and cool until the boiling point is reached and then it's like a nuclear bomb went off.
Welcome to Monday is what I call it, especially when it's Monday.
The sewer line was replaced, the hole ended up being 7 feet deep, 6 feet wide and 4 feet across. I'm not a stranger to hard work but there are some things you leave to the professionals. When they were done, they casually said, "well we didn't mess up the yard too bad.".
I didn't say anything, I was in the house, I was pissed off (in traditional Libra fashion I guess) and couldn't think straight. We take a lot of pride that we have a beautiful property, and made sure the repair crew would use plywood on the grass. Didn't happen, they just drove across it and turned when they felt like. Lazy, 100% lazy. They could have made one turn 3 feet further and it would have been off the grass.
I drove M1's and BFV's, I know how tracked vehicles work. The worst part, the damage can't be repaired until next year, the grass is already in winter mode. The sewer line repair work was great, but my ass is chapped.
Driving back to work, I turned left at a light and here is a bicycle blowing the light on the other side. I'm positive I had a green arrow, nobody honked at me or crashed into me and there was plenty of other traffic. Jamming on my brakes, I looked at the guy and called him a dick, and he heard it since my window was down. A flow of words came out of his mouth but I just drove away down the street where I hit another light. What do I see a few minutes laster? This same guy on the sidewalk (yup, not on the street where it's legal but of course on the sidewalk) either filming me or taking a picture. Yawn.
I had the right of way, didn't hit him or make him dump his bike. He ran a red light and then rode his bike on the sidewalk. To me this is typical behavior from bicyclists in Colorado Springs.
Maybe it's just me and my Libra-ness.
I suspect it's more a symptom of modern life than some astrological sign. In my case, I could just as easily blame it on my Ulster Scot/Irish ancestry.
ReplyDeleteSorry about your lawn; that shows a real "we don't care" attitude on the part of the contractor.
At least it's snowing right now, perhaps I won't be able to see it for a few days. I'll just spend time cleaning rifles instead of staring at the grass.
DeletePeople, with a few notable exceptions, make me want to take up a spiked club and flail indiscriminately into the crowd. I nourish a special distaste for the spandex suited bike crowd. I think of them as stinkbugs. I know that's being too generalized and some of them are good people, but I always seem to come across the "dicks", riding four abreast across the lane, or in swarms blocking the road.
ReplyDeleteWhen I ride, I wear shorts that look like... well shorts. All the bike kit does is help market companies (that you just paid), for free. Spandex is to prevent chaffing, it's not really helping you ride better unless you are doing Velo.
DeleteIf I have to obey the traffic laws, so do bikes, and yet I get yelled at. Sign of the times, indeed.
Our idiotic state just passed legislation giving bike riders total control over the roads. Vehicles have to stay 3 feet away from the bicyclist. If the vehicle can't pass safely, or it's a double yellow line, then you have to slow down to the bicyclist's speed and just follow them until they either move far enough to the side of the road or you just turn Libra and run them over!
ReplyDeleteBut it's ok for them to skip traffic, hit a sidewalk to bypass a light and flash beans and frank way too often. The good thing about all the flooding is there is 98% less bike traffic in our area, all the places they used to ride are shut down.
DeleteI even got my haircut really short, someone commented it made me look mean. I said, "welcome to October!"
Living in a very "bikey" town, I have seen it all. There are plenty of grade a, dickwads on two-wheels but unfortunately when people make statements along the lines of "I know there are some good ones but most bike people are assholes" I get a little ruffled. The fact is, most everyone on the road is a freaking moron. I don't care what you are driving. Most everyone tail-gates, drives aggressively, fails to singal, can't park to save their lives, rampantly disregards traffic laws. Cyclists are no different. They are just as human as the jack-off driving 20 under the speed limit on I5 for 20 straight miles in the fast lane. The *real* problem in my opinion (since people will be people) is that our transit infrastructure is in no way designed for bikes. No, not even in extremely bikey Portland, Oregon. Not even a little. Just look at how Europeans do it and you'll see what I mean.
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