On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:22:31 GMT, "Fred Hall" wrote:

When to honk:

When you want to see how quickly a person can remove one hand from the drops
and raise the middle finger of said hand high in the air...
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But seriously...about a month ago while driving I came up behind four guys
probably my age (late forties) on a two lane country road, ambling along at
probably 10 - 12 mph (no spandex to be seen), gabbing to each other, 4
abreast - 2 in each lane...they took their sweet time, gave me a dirty look
for daring to be on the same road with them, then the two in the "wrong"
(passing) lane moved over so I had to go in the passing lane to get by
them...stretching out single file never seemed to occur to them. Being a
cyclist I didn't lay on the horn, but I sure wanted to...it's actions like
that that give us all a bad reputation.

Sounds like a troll. Did they impede you for more than, say 3 seconds tops?

Did they endanger you in your 2 ton metal cage? Poor thing.

Urge to beep isn't related to anything about reputation or justification;
it's just anger that something small and vulnerable asserted momentary
dominance.

-B