It doesn’t matter that much if it’s 10 or 40 mph slower, though, does it. It’s that you have to do something you don’t want to do. You’d surely feel the same way if you came up behind a funeral procession, but you know how it would sound to demand they pull over for you.
Maybe for some folks, I’d agree. I don’t mind slowing down momentarily. I really don’t. We’re talking having to go miles at 20mph down a highway with a speed limit of 50 (one that’s routinely broken by lots of drivers, lol).
They pass plenty of places to stop for a second and don’t.
My first reply, I realized, was a reaction to realizing my own damage and black & white feelings of what is justified. When I was young and and self involved I tried to prevent merging traffic from getting ahead of me in one spot of my commute. How dare they be in this lane they KNEW was ending…
This has been an emotional journey for me today. 😭 Thank you listening, and I hope you can develop some peace with your commute when the cyclists don’t pull over.
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They pass plenty of places to stop for a second and don’t.
We have the human right to be annoyed. We shouldn’t feel okay about opportunities for others to be hurt.
And I admit I’ve got a long way to go to color my perception of justice, instead of the black and white view it can sometimes be.