# I pit the retard who was driving in the bike lane **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893 "2009-11-01T00:14:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/21 "2009-11-01T23:55:28Z")
I am totally on board with this rant. The same thing happens here, but it’s the bus lane. It drives me MAD, but the police have been out lately trying to crack down on it, thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/22 "2009-11-02T02:27:55Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Careful, she might be a gun totin’ soccer mom. [Hannibal Lecter voice] Not any more [/HLV] ---
**Author:** ![Dripping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Dripping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dripping)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/23 "2009-11-02T03:20:46Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > **I don’t get road rage**. then > [@](#): > > …I decided to block you. … I floored it when the light turned green just so I could get ahead of you. Then I moved my car halfway into the bike lane and drove as if you weren’t even there. …Fat chance, dipshit, now you’ve pissed me off and you’re going to stay behind me all the fucking way. > > And you know what? I know what you look like now. I know what you’re driving. When I drive down that road again, I’m looking for you, and I’m going to do the same fucking thing over and over until you get it through your god damn head that you do not try that again, ever. Uh, ooookay. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/24 "2009-11-02T03:40:25Z")
I try not to get angry and react to things like this when they happen to me. They’re really not worth your piece of mind. I tell myself this, and it helps: “You Scylla, are a true man, a genuine badass, and the Fist of God. As one would not crack an egg with a sledgehammer, the Fist of God does not trouble himself with small things, so just smile at that lady in the bike lane and don’t sweat it.” I figure what is worth my ire and action against someone is preventing that other from perpetrating immediate and lasting harm upon another. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/25 "2009-11-02T04:28:30Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > This thread is so gay. I’m offended by your use of the word “thread”. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/26 "2009-11-02T04:38:23Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > So you’ve never seen the lady use the bile lane before? Any lane the OP’s in is the bile lane. ---
**Author:** ![Dripping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Dripping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dripping)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/27 "2009-11-02T06:42:47Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > **piece** of mind. Um, it’s “peace”. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/28 "2009-11-02T10:07:33Z")
> [@Dripping](#): > > Um, it’s “peace”. It might be a comment on the relative amount of brain power available to the OP regarding this issue… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/29 "2009-11-02T14:14:28Z")
I’m guessing this is one of those bike lanes that a car can fit in. Most of the time drivers like that try to fit in the narrow lanes because any minute now it will magically turn into a car-sized lane just for them! For more fun with the car sized bike lane, try having one of these spoiled brats follow you on your bike laying on the horn for the audacity of you biking in their special ‘traffic dodging’ lane. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/30 "2009-11-02T14:53:35Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I figure what is worth my ire and action against someone is preventing that other from perpetrating immediate and lasting harm upon another. I suspect being hit by a Jaguar might cause immediate and lasting harm to a bicyclist. Get thy swerve on, Fist of God. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/31 "2009-11-02T18:16:25Z")
> [@Dripping](#): > > then > > Uh, ooookay. I usually don’t. It’s exceedingly rare for me to get upset over driving conditions. I handle traffic well, I almost never use the horn, and I let people, even buses, get ahead of me if they signal first. Some of this is due to my being a good driver, some of them is because I’m just a lazy driver. I can’t be bothered to change lanes everytime my lane slows down for a second so I just plod along. I guess it was a combination of things that made me lose my temper on this woman. She deserved it though 😛 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/32 "2009-11-02T18:18:14Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > I’m guessing this is one of those bike lanes that a car can fit in. Most of the time drivers like that try to fit in the narrow lanes because any minute now it will magically turn into a car-sized lane just for them! > > For more fun with the car sized bike lane, try having one of these spoiled brats follow you on your bike laying on the horn for the audacity of you biking in their special ‘traffic dodging’ lane. This is was a huge bike lane. It looks like a combination bike lane and parking space, since many of the houses along the road can park along the curb and the bike lane runs to the left of those cars. So this is easily double the width of a regular bike lane. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/33 "2009-11-02T20:25:50Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Don’t forget stronger, too. QFT. I’ve wrestled with one. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/34 "2009-11-02T20:31:36Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > While Jaguar lady never disrupted anyone else’s journey, you sir performed a hostile aggressive action for no other reason than she had more balls than you to take an opportunity that you wish you could take advantage of yourself. > > The irony is that while you purport the reason for your outrage is her transgression of the law, your solution was to perform the very same transgression albeit half assed and with malicious intent. > > Fuck, you need to grow up. Ding! Ding! Winnah! The OP sounds like a raving lunatic. O Mighty Road Warrior shall block the way and save the day! Look Mr Testosterone, if you need to feel like a Warrior King you can go play paintball with the rest of the other fuckwit clowns. Leave the driving to the adults, okay? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/35 "2009-11-02T20:36:46Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Ding! Ding! Winnah! > > The OP sounds like a raving lunatic. O Mighty Road Warrior shall block the way and save the day! Look Mr Testosterone, if you need to feel like a Warrior King you can go play paintball with the rest of the other fuckwit clowns. Or wrestle a retard! Win-win! ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/36 "2009-11-02T21:12:41Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I’m going to do the same fucking thing over and over until you get it through your god damn head that you do not try that again, ever. I’m basically with you, but… how is she ever going to get it through her head not to try that again? She’s not a mind reader, you’re just another jerk to her. No way to connect her offense with her punishment. That’s the difficulty with the roads, it’s so hard to communicate with other cars. I’ve often wished of getting one of those electronic message signs attached to my car so I could write messages to the other cars. ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/37 "2009-11-02T21:34:14Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > While Jaguar lady never disrupted anyone else’s journey… Except cyclists. Signed, a sometimes cyclist who has no sympathy for the lady in the Jaguar at all. Edited to add: and **Polycarp** , btw, is absolutely correct. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/38 "2009-11-03T01:11:12Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > I am totally on board with this rant. The same thing happens here, but it’s the bus lane. It drives me MAD, but the police have been out lately trying to crack down on it, thankfully. Yep. Here in Seattle they’ve started cracking down on those scofflaws. I find it ironic though that the only place for them to pull to the side of the road is in the bus lane! ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/39 "2009-11-03T01:51:34Z")
Years ago, when my sister was a teenager in a psychiatric unit, my mother and I were driving her back to the hospital from a few hours’ leave. There was a traffic jam on the interstate; finally we were close to the exit. But as we pulled onto the exit lane, someone pulled out in front of us, thinking (I suppose) that we were trying to cheat our way past them. We sat there … a half hour, maybe? I shouted at them, sometimes, and finally—after cars behind us started dangerously driving past us to skirt by them—they got out of the way. Assholes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893/40 "2009-11-03T02:44:04Z")
> [@Orbifold](#): > > Except cyclists. You don’t know that, and if it was the case, it would have only occured after road warrior **Yogi** saved the day for all law abiding motorists by deliberately slowing down the bike lane. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-retard-who-was-driving-in-the-bike-lane/515893.md?page=3)