From a scooterist to a motorist

An open letter to the asshole in the maroon SUV on W. Saanich Rd. yesterday @ 4:10pm:

Thanks for endangering not only my life, but the lives of everyone around you because you’re an arrogant prick who thinks he owns the road just because you drive a gas guzzling SUV.

It is NOT okay to ride my back wheel in order to pressure me to go faster. How do I go faster when there’s another car in front of me?

It is NOT okay to try to pass me ON MY LEFT-HAND SIDE IN SINGLE LANE TRAFFIC by straddling the double solid yellow line, with cars going by in both directions, then cutting me off (causing me to almost run off the road and into a ditch), and squeezing your fat SUV ass into the tiny space between me and the next car. All the while, cars going in the opposite direction are honking and screaming at you because they have to slow down and move over to accommodate the fact that you’ve invaded their lane.

And then when I honk at you for cutting me off and almost killing me, it is NOT okay to roll down your window, tell me to “F-off” and “get in the bicycle lane.” Then when the car in front of you turns off the road, it is not okay to speed off just to prove your point that your SUV is indeed more powerful than my scooter.

First of all, scooters are considered motor vehicles, and it is illegal for a motor vehicle to be in the bicycle lane. So F U. Second of all, I wasn’t even slowing down traffic at all. I was going 55 km/hr in a 50 km/hr speed zone. When a scooter can go 62 km/hr, it has every right to be in a traffic lane.

I could have understood if I was completely slowing traffic down, and going less than the speed limit. But I was in the middle of traffic, going above the speed limit, and the douche has the audacity to nearly kill me, then tell me to fuck off? I hate drivers like that!

Arggg now I’m all angry again after typing all of that out. Time to sit and fume in my office for the next few minutes.