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.
[Hannibal Lecter voice]
Not any more
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then
Uh, ooookay.
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.
I’m offended by your use of the word “thread”.
Any lane the OP’s in is the bile lane.
Um, it’s “peace”.
It might be a comment on the relative amount of brain power available to the OP regarding this issue…
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.
I suspect being hit by a Jaguar might cause immediate and lasting harm to a bicyclist. Get thy swerve on, Fist of God.
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 
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.
QFT. I’ve wrestled with one.
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?
Or wrestle a retard! Win-win!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.