Things I hate
- people who don’t set up the auto withdrawal that they’ve been agreeing to do for months, then play like it’s my fault;
- tourists who like to sit in a caleche so all of Old Mtl smells like horse shit;
- people who walk in the bike path when there’s a pedestrian path right next to the bike path;
- people who drive their scooters in the bike path (ILLEGAL) because otherwise they’d be going the wrong way down a one way street;
- people who bike or rollerblade side by side in the narrow bike path;
- people who are so freaking desperate to pass you that they do it as someone is coming the other way instead of waiting 10 seconds then passing;
- stupid fucking morons who STOP and CHAT in the middle of the bike path, or slow down when walking across it and they see you coming[1];
- poorly maintained bike paths that jostle you when you’re getting your period and want to be home lying down already.
This post brought to you by the letters P, C, and I.
[1] Totally appropriate in a crosswalk if a car is being pesty. Cars = easy to start again, bikes = not.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Are you sure the sponsers weren’t P,M and S? Sounds like you had a really rough day. Maybe some pampering would be in order. Or, if not, perhaps drugs or alcohol would work. In any case, hope tomorrow is loads better for you.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:14 pm
I believe it was Pain, Cramp, and Irritation.
It wasn’t a bad day, I was just all irritable. Notice that almost all of them are about bike paths? The same bike path. I intend to do that bike ride more when I’m not crampy and irritable, because it was nice. Except the stupidheads.
September 1st, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Bike path stuff annoys me too, no matter what time of the month.
My pet peeve: groups of guys (it is always guys, and always between 16 and 25 years old) strung out across the shared bike/pedestrian path, walking slowly and jostling each other, who LOOK OVER THEIR SHOULDER AND SEE YOU COMING and then carry on the exact same formation, so that you have to go off the path onto the grass to get around them.
GRRRR.
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:03 am
No bike paths at all ’round here. :(