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So you broke the law by talking on your cellphone while driving and almost hit a bicyclist and someone pointed it out to you and you get pissy at liberals...
I keep forgetting about liberal reading comprehension issues. From the first paragraph: "She was many yards away and completely out of danger." This was not a near-accident.
Several years ago, one of my brothers nearly lost his life because a distracted cell-phone talking driver failed to stay out of the bike lane. Thankfully, a few nights in the hospital had him well on the way to a full recovery. Just yesterday, a mother at our local school pulled out right in front of my son and I as we rode our bikes to the elementary school. She, too, was on a cell phone.
You are blatantly flouting the law by using your cell in the car, and you're extremely lucky that you haven't yet caused an accident. Had I been the rider in your post, I'd have done more than wag my finger at you. Put down the @$%^ phone and keep your full attention on the road, please.
This morning I received an angry finger-wagging from a fit middle aged woman on a bicycle. She had a mannish short haircut
Here we go with the christian passing judgment, predictably about women. Sorry, go on...
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and, of course, was obediently wearing her bicycle helmet. This is a bike-friendly university town and proudly bills itself as such.
One wonders if you chose that word as a compliment or a dig.
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My transgression? I failed to see and yield to her bicycle, as my view was obscured by parked vehicles.
Which means, to those who are good drivers, one drives with extreme caution around parked vehicles. Common sense, mind you.
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Even worse in her mind, I'm sure, I had a cell phone on my ear
No, it IS worse.
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- though that had nothing to do with the problem.
WP, it has EVERYTHING to do with the problem. You were breaking the law, driving carelessly, and were distracted. You don't deserve to have a license to drive.
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(California is one of 10 states that bans handheld cell phone use while driving. Old habits are hard to break.)
Old habits my foot. Put the damn thing away and pay attention to the road, pedestrians, and cyclists. Anything else is foolish and dangerous, regardless of the amount of excuses you make for your irresponsible behavior.
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She was many yards away and completely out of danger.
She identified a dangerous driver who did not yield to her. The fact that she was away from your car is fortunate...but if you had been closer, you wouldn't have composed your smug post, since you would have likely been in jail for vehicular manslaughter.
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Which brings me to the topic of the militant liberal scold (MLS). MLSers feel as passionately about their constellation of petty issues - bicycling, recycling, anti-smoking, anti-spanking, animal rights, zoning laws, building codes, discrimination, etc. - as devout religious people feel about God. Even more passionately, it seems, judging by their incessant displays of outrage. And they aren't afraid to impose their beliefs on you. Case in point: my city has just taken another step toward banning the use of plastic bags by grocery stores. Once this is passed, non-grocers who use plastic bags can expect lots of mean glares, finger-wagging, and nastygrams from the MLS crowd. If you transgress one of the tenets of their secular religion in public - especially if you fit a certain (ahem) profile - expect a boatload of MLS wrath. And if you own a business, you might as well put it in the budget, because it's going to cost you.
The MLS is typically a person who has replaced faith in God with a thousand petty laws and rules designed to create a liberal utopia on earth. The MLS who would shut down a sidewalk lemonade stand for operating without a health permit typically has no problem with killing innocent children in the womb. The MLS who goes ballistic over some fellow smoking in the park typically has no problem with Jack Kevorkian and assisted suicide. The MLS who calls the cops when you are target shooting on your own property typically has no problem with internet pornography. Etc.
This seems like a paradox, because when MLSers rail against religion and Christian morality, they frame the conflict in terms of freedom. But MLSers on the ground are psychotic control-freaks and micro-managers hell-bent on squeezing the last bit of freedom from the lives of their benighted and backwards neighbors. And yet - is it really a paradox? Or are MLSers merely creating a substitute religion a thousand times more controlling than the faith they are rebelling against?
All I got from that was a weird clicking noise and indigestion.
Because YOU endangered someone else, you're ranting and throwing in the kitchen sink about political affiliations and religious blather, as if it had ANYTHING to do with your lousy driving and avoidance of responsibility.
Get a grip.
People DIE because of drivers who behave like you do and without conscience. THAT is shameful. THAT is immoral.
So from a visual appraisal you made a judgment on someones religious and political views, leanings and standpoint? Impressive.
The only thing to be assessed from the anecdote is that the lady in question is extraordinarily polite. When cell phone yakkers decide their conversation is too important to notice their surroundings and so ignore my right of way, I don't wag my fingers. Fingers are involved, though. Well, one finger, anyway.
Talk about reaching. So you have a traffic incident where you admit you didn't see a woman on a bike and she was upset about that, yet this turns into being about liberals.
How do you know that woman's political beliefs, and how do you know how her political beliefs factored into her reaction to you?
Are you saying that people who aren't liberals don't ride bikes? Are you saying that all women with short hair are liberals?
Are you saying that all people who wear a helmet while riding a bike are liberals?
Are you saying that all women who bike are liberals?
Are you saying that all people with short hair who ride a bike are liberals?
Are you saying that short haired women who wear helmets while riding a bike are liberals?
Finally, I think her reaction had to do probably with her feeling that you almost hit her and maybe your nonchalant attitude about almost hitting her.
Quit with the childish nonsense..... your party always paints with a broad brush too
Regarding the OP..... I was on your side until you mentioned you were talking on the cell phone while riding...... yeah, real safe.... putting others in danger
If you see some butch gal on a bike the odds are pretty good she is a liberal.
Why prey tell?
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