7-16-10

Today started out normal. It was a bit cooler than I expected, but not bad. It was a quick ride the to MAX and got there just as the blue train showed up. You tend to see the same people on the same trains in the same seats day after day. On the blue train there is a guy, who I haven't figured out a nickname for yet, that always gives me the creeps. He always sits by the front of the train in the seats by the bike hangers. Today was no different, he stared at me for quite some time. I finally got a chance to sit down, and for one stop thought I wouldn't have anyone sitting next to me. Wrong! The creep had a person he knew sit down next to him, which would have been fine. 15 seconds after leaving the stop, she decides to sit next to me, and talk loudly to the creep. I was so happy to get off the train. I rode up the hill, as usual. Going down I was hitting the lights perfect for the first half. About half way down, I got a car that rode my back wheel, so I increased my speed and screwed up my light timing. Partially blew through a red light......oops! Once I got to Burnside it was a quiet and uneventful ride.

On the way home it was a different story. I hit the lights right going to the Steel Bridge. After the lights and before I got on the bridge, I had to stop for two idiots riding side by side on the bike/walk bridge. In another post, I will post pictures and a better description of the bridge. Anyways, I had to stop and do a track stand until these two morons got around the corner and I could go. I said some unkind things under my breath and kept going. I got as far as halfway before I had to do another track stand. This time it was for some girl who though it was ok to pass a pedestrian when someone was coming the other way. I told her thanks for giving me so much room, in a sarcastic tone. I think she was too dumb to get it, she just smiled. Just as I got off the west side of the bridge, I had to do two more track stands for incredibly stupid, egotisitical, moronic, hipsters that had to ride their oh-so-cool single speeds three wide on the walkway. I really wanted to take my bike pump and beat some sense into their tattooed, pierced heads! I refrained, I wouldn't do good in prison. Then, riding down Naito Parkway, in the bike lane, a fat pig in a Mercedes decided that the bike lane was to be used for passing. While grabbing my brakes to keep from being turned into hamburger, I loudly proclaimed his incredible lack of common sense and let everyone in the area know just how dumb he was. I happened to catch up to him at the next stoplight, and he so kindly had his passenger window down. I told him he was a f**king idiot and almost hit me. He wouldn't even look at me. What a fat, out-of-shape piece of crap! After these incidents, I thought it might be best to catch the train at an earlier stop so I didn't kill anyone.