Justin Serna
OK, I know I am going to catch hell for this but come on!!! What part of this scenario made you think you should stop and reason with this guy?
1) Helvetia Rd. (Not exactly the most urban neighborhood)
2) Older Brown Chevy p.u. ( Not Exactly a Volvo with a bike rack on top)
3) Jackson Quarry Rd. (Just sounds like you are in the sticks)
4) Stopped in the road to see just who this jack ass was. (Really, just to see who he was)
5) He came running out of the business yelling at me. ( Review 1-4 and then add man running out of TIRE SHOP screaming at you and you were going to reason with him???)
I am not just trying to be a smart ass but seriously there is a time and a place for everything. I have found in my 39 years of experience that when ever we track someone down to explain our side it never really goes the way we intend. I completely understand how you must have felt as I am sure most of us here do. I will be perfectly honest, I have always been a bit of a hot head when it comes to less than courteous drivers but after reading the recently posted story here on the OBRA blog, about the gentleman that had a GUN pulled on him. I will think more than twice about who I explain anything to. I have been trying very hard to just go with the smile and wave retort.
Please don't take this as a personal attack, I just want us all to get along!!!!!
J. Serna
---- Original Message ----
From: Lynne cuevas
To: obra@list.obra.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:03:27 AM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] road rage on Helvetia rd
I was on the newly chip sealed Helvetia rd yesterday riding along in the center of the lane trying to find the smooth spots in the road as there was no traffic at the time. All of the sudden there is an older brown Chevy p.u. whizzing by my left shoulder blaring his horn. My reaction was to fly the bird and keep going.
He turned left at Jackson Quarry rd. as well as I did. I came upon his truck at McCann tire and stopped in the road to see just who this jack ass was. He came running out of the business yelling at me about how illegal I was and that I was going to end up in a ditch! I tried to explain to him that if he would have tooted his horn a couple of hundred feet behind me, I would have gladly moved over for him and that the chip seal was hard for me to ride. He heard none of it and yelled at me. Of course I told him he was wrong and I did have as much right to be there as he did.
This infuriated the man. He ran towards me and was kicking gravel on me from less than 5' away and swung his arms wildly as he was calling me a bitch.
At that time the guy from McCann's told him to stop. I tried to explain to the shop guy what had happened, he told me to leave. I was on the street...not on his property. I got the license number of the truck and left.
The police said they were going to go talk to him but wouldn't give me a return call to say how it went.
I later learned that the guy that harassed me was an employee of the tire shop. I was a customer of his a month ago. He changed over some tires for my friend. We are both cyclists and wanted to give the small business owner our business.
He won't get my business anymore
Lynne Cuevas
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