It gives me great pleasure to have a little digital camera in my backpack. You never know what you are gong to see cycling to and from work. Take this scene I shot on my way home from work recently... I liked how there was this glorious sunset going on able the distillery district and yet it seemed as fit the area had its own business to attend to. Lights were just coming on and businesses were setting up for the evening with no thought to what was going on overhead.
I have often wondered about having a video camera on board. Not just to record the trip but to also have some record of what actually happened during some of the random yet inevitable altercations that seem to occur when bikes meet cars. Like this evening for example. There I was riding along the bike lane, minding my own business, when an owner of a car parked next to the bike lane opened his driver side door to get in right in front of me while I rang me bell. "Watch your car door please" I yelled. He looked up at me as if I wasn’t there "What? Didn’t you see me?" I said pointing to my twin headlights as I passed. "No" I heard him call after me. Yet, moments later, his car practically touched me as he swerved into the bike lane to show me how clever he could be behind the wheel of his big ugly lump of steel and rubber. Maybe he did that to teach me a lesson... and the lesson is that he’s an idiot! I hate people who use their cars as weapons. I could have done with a record shot of his license plate.
No comments:
Post a Comment