Weather

People are in bad moods, boy! But not me even though we got at least two more weeks of storms according to the paper.

I have to admit, last night hearing the rain on the roof again, I thought when will it all end? When will we be warm again?

I'm not sure why I'm not in a bad mood, just lucky I guess. There does seem to be two types of people, those who can handle weeks and weeks of rain and darkness and cold and those who can't.

Just sitting on the bus, you can see both types, the one group laughing and chatting (but not too loud so as not to disturb their cranky neighbors) and the other cranky group with frowns on their faces.

I guess sometimes I'm that guy with a frown so I better just shut up.

Today I saw a guy riding a bike yelling at somebody in a car who had cut him off. The fact that this biker is riding in one of the most un-bike friendly areas in Seattle is forgotten in his wrath, just screaming at the person in the car. The car stops and I think uh oh but it's just a drop off of a woman in the car who gets out and walks across the meridian thing to the stairs, all the while the biker screaming at the driver of the car.

It turns out the biker is going the same way as the woman walking so he stops screaming long enough to say Please after you to the woman going down the stairs. Ker-azy.

Right after that, I also saw another guy stoop over to look at something and the lens fell out of his glasses but that's another story.

Anyway, these bikers who insist on biking on heavily travelled routes when they could be riding somewhere else a LOT friendlier are a different breed that's for sure. It's almost as if they want someone to not see them so they can complain, but not seeing a biker on these routes could be disasterous (knock on wood) .

Although they would win the battle (ha! you didn't see me when you should have) you lose the war. A pyrrhic victory at best.

The thing that gets me too is how they feel like it's their right to be in traffic, but they can't manage to go the speed limit. 30 mph is pretty fast on a bike. I think that's illegal but try telling it to these wankers who are just waiting for somebody to say something.

You always see them, especially at red lights in front of a whole line of cars smack dab in the middle of the street, not off to the side where cars can get around them. That's not what they're there for, making things safe and easy. Their job is to slow cars down, create anxiety and especially create danger and all because they are PROVING some misguided POINT.

But all they're proving is they have a POINT ON TOP OF THEIR HEADS!

They are related to the people who are in the Sunday-let's-go-out-and-drive-slow-in-the-mountains club.

They're just the sort of people who would scream at somebody and act all indignant, just the sort of person you want to invite to your next soiree.

I think they're pedants.