I just read the riot act to an airhead in a giant SUV!!

[guitar man]

No this isn't a copycat thread, I was just very nearly injured or possibly killed on the way back from lunch just now. :scared:

I was travelling along a 4 lane city street on my bike, and I'll admit, I was running a tad faster than I should have been, about 50 in a 45mph zone. I was in the right lane, there was a car in the left several lengths back and all of a sudden this.....woman in a Ford Excursion shoots a left turn in front of me. Not just any left turn, but a lollygagging, "take all day I don't give a shit about anybody but me" left turn.

I instinctively jumped on the brakes and started looking for options, remembering there was a car on the left that would be closing fast now that I was decelerating rapidly. My rear wheel locked up momentarily and about that split second I could see her, talking on the phone and LOOKING RIGHT AT ME!! Luckily, the car on the left saw what was happening and jumped on her brakes to let me go around the behemoth, which I barely cleared.

The SUV nut lady had turned into a strip mall parking lot and the first place I found, I spun the bike around and went back to have a talk with her.

She was parked with th motor running, STILL yapping on the damn phone when I pulled up. I shut the bike off jumped off and tapped on the window. She held her hand up like "just a minute" and I came un-freaking glued!! I beat the shit out of the glass about 3 times and she cracked the window open:

She said "What DO you want?"

I said "Oh, nothing, except you almost KILLED ME!!"

..and than I launched into a tirade about irresponsible, inattentive driving and inconsiderate, dangerous behavior on the road etc. I don't remember everything I said, but I'm sure my face was probably shades of purple and that vein was popped out on the side of my head.

She acted like she was going to cry and said "I didn't see you". I shot back, "well, when you realized I was there, why didn't you drop the phone and pick it up a little to give me a chance to clear you?"

"No, I didn't see you at all, I never saw you until you pulled up."

Then I really lost it..."How in the fuck do you NOT see a FUCKING HARLEY DAVIDSON SKIDDING SIDEWAYS TOWARD YOU WHEN YOU WERE LOOKING RIGHT AT ME??!!! :banghead:

I just threw my hands up, jumped on the bike and came back in to work. :eyes:

I need my Excedrin Migraine now, about 4 of them...:crazy: