[The only reason I go to the gym is so that I can deal effortlessly with scoundrels like these.]
Truth be told this is just what happened in my head. I was too tired to be bothered and it was clear the cyclist had been drinking, so I moved over and let him past.
I am actually
Basically the footbridge is too narrow to accommodate cyclists. There is simply not enough room for cyclists to safely pass pedestrians. Signs ask cyclists to dismount and even threaten fines if they do not. And this isn't even just the pedantic actions of a health-and-safety-obsessed council. There have been numerous accidents where cyclists have collided with pedestrians, including elderly folk and mothers with prams. However these incalculably selfish and brainless cyclists continue to plough over the footbridge.
When we first moved here we would politely step aside and let the buffoons past, but over time we became more and more frustrated. These days Mrs Stoneskin and I will stop and
On this particular occasion I let the inebriated cyclist past. He reached the other side, took a sharp right, lost his balance and fell over the wall into the river. I
31 comments:
So, cyclists are crazy everywhere huh? We have a lot of bike messengers in the city who are balls to the walls nuts! I'm in awe of their letter messaging skillz!
Hilarious! I was going to suggest scattering a few well-placed bricks across the footbridge to make sure the cyclists fell, but nature took care of it for you!
At first I thought you meant a motorcyclist and I was all, "What the hell is a drunk guy on a motor cycle doing on a footbridge knocking over little old ladies and prams??"
Then I realized it was a bicycle and laughed when he fell in the water.
Mad Dog,loved this and the Goth wedding too. That is so cool where you can write mean vindictive stuff and cross it out but still have it be legible. On this side of the pond our keyboards won't do that. It's either revenge in or revenge out. You are funny!
Keep a couple sticks in your pocket and shove them in their spokes as they whiz by. That'll teach 'em!
If only you had been carrying a video camera and could post his well deserved come uppance.
we have insane people here on bikes, as well. Worse yet, they're all pompous, know-it-all Yalies who think, because their parents pay tuition to Yale, they own all the streets in the city - and don't give a flying fart if they cause traffic accidents.
Cyclists have the run of the land in my little town. As do surfers, skateboarders, and drunks.
It's a charming place.
As for you, looks like cyclist karma took care of the river dunker. Funny how that works out sometimes, isn't it?
Now I am feeling out of step here, because last week I actually caused a cyclist to fall, totally by mistake. I was crossing the beach-side bike/footpath and I was not sure about the etiquette - what side is for walkers, what side for bikers, or were the sides for each direction instead?
so when a biker came up behind me I stepped to the side and then back into his path stupidly for fear someone else would hit me and froze in fear and the poor man braked suddenly to avoid hitting me and fell.
I felt pretty awful.....
There should be a law that allows pedestrians to remove their saddles and replace them with a sharp pointy stick!
I'd totally have to lose my balance and topple a few. Totally obnoxious and unnecessary, especially since there's an actual good reason for hopping off the bike.
What would the police do with a drunk cyclist? Pay a high fine and sober up in jail? It's soooo irresponsible!
I am now calling everyone who annoys me a stupid moose.
I am in total agreement with you!
Tee hee. Moose. That's a good one!
Grr, I hate people that have no regard whatsoever for others and their surroundings! Obviously this guy was a doofus anyway, so life will punish him enough just for being him. lol. Case in point-him falling into the river-LMAO!
I think, for therapeutic reasons, you should really just push them in the river. You'd feel much better all around.
THAT'S KARMA BITCH.
I might have screamed that at him. Maybe.
Karma...you're usually not around to see it strike those deserving people, but when you are...it's time for celebrating...pointing of fingers...and laughing.
Stuff like that irritates me, too. At least in this case Karma was her bitchy self ;)
I love natural justice...i can think of at least three or four people whom i would love to see natural justice visited upon...it is in my prayers every night :)
karma. gotta love karma.
Poetic justice!
I am a cyclist, but I don't ride near pedestrians. But I do have issues with people who walk on the bike path.
Ah, every dog has his day:)
Karma has it's way of taking care of pesky cyclists. The cyclists in Cambridge nearly killed my kids.
Yup. Karma. Gotta love it.
I busted up when I read that this only happened in your head! (Me, too! A lot happens in my head!!!)
But the part where he fell in, that happened for real!!! Sweet.
Hahahahaha! I love it. Natural justice indeed.
Cyclists are nearly always insufferable. In my town there are lots of bike lanes but they still insist on riding down the center of the road and/or weaving dangerously in and out of traffic as though road rules don't apply to them. I also hate cyclists who alternate between footpath & road with little to no warning. I hate them with a fiery passion, and I wish they would all fall in a river some day.
beautiful just beautiful
Here in Portland, bicyclists ride around with chips on their shoulders. Out of necessity. Too many of them have been killed by crazy motorists.
But then again, ain't Karma a wonderful thing?
snicker x
That must have been wonderful, to watch the idiot fall into the river...
Post a Comment