Do you ever ge the compulsion to open your car door when passing cyclists and knock them off their bikes?
924678
No, but cyclists always seem to get the compulsion to ride into my car door when I open it.
1017826
Hmmm...I've never heard of that, except for extreme cases. you must be extremely goregeous. i guess as long as you don't pull over, you'd do fine. the people who makes those signs are not real polite because they didn't take how you would feel about those really crude advances to try to get into your pants...
176414
I did that one time. but I didn't have insurance, so I just took off. hopefully no one saw me!! but it didn't damage my car, so I don't think it did a whole lot to the other car since I was in a toyota tercel.\n\nI would do the whole Halle Berry thing.....get out of my car, leave my car there, and run away!
63458
Yes, three times, and I appreciated the dispacter each time!!\n\n.. I live in a very rural area, it was winter, all 3 of my babies were home, my youngest being only 6 months old, babysitting another 3 month old for a girlfriend. Snow was on the ground pretty thick, front door was chain locked, and I thought manually locked too. Someone opened the door from the outside, saw the chain then closed the door again, I couldn't believe what I saw, so I went to my window to look out... no one there, no cars in my drive other than mine, I freaked, called 911, and began to speed read my situation over the phone, had to repeat it twice since the adrenalin rush of panic had taken over,  then a few minutes after giving my address and telling all the kids to be quiet like mice, and checking to make sure the back door was locked, I peeking out the front window again and again, the dispatch was very calming even though my heart was racing. Then I heard my garage door close, and as I was peeking out I saw my husband, he slid the car into the ditch up the road and had walked back.  I don't know how the dispatch ever understood a word of what I said, since I have the habit of talking fast anyway, but his patience and calm helped me, and his understanding of my husband being my break in, which I yelled about (I think while I was on the phone with him, for my husnband to "NEVER DO THAT AGAIN",) he made absolutely certain I was sure it was my husband before hanging up.. I thought he must have had a good chuckle over that one later.. I know my girlfriends did since they called me about a 8 times pretending to be a 911 operator asking me if I was certain my husband was not an intruder!
959632
lol, very cute question. But yes, I do. But only when you try to pass them and they speed up, just like cars on the road. Then you gotta race them for sure. And it gets really awkward because you both know you're racing but are trying to pretend like you don't notice, even though there's no way you couldn't notice because you're both moving faster than anyone else on the sidewalk. People downtown are very competetive.
1167551
Passion overcame my boyfriend and I one evening and we decided to drive to a secluded carpark.\n\nWhen we got there, we noticed that there were 3 other vehicles parked up at the otherside, windows all semi-steamed up, so  we parked at the other side away from them\n\nAnyway one thing led to another and just in mid thrust so-to-speak there were a knock on the window, we looked out and realised that it was a police officer.\n\nIt appeared that we had been the entertainment for an organised drugs bust and that in the other cars in the carpark was nearly a million pounds worth of cocaine!\n\nThe drug dealers applauded us as they were handcuffed and thrown into the back of a van!
747293
Hundreds of times, I think I do it more often than most beople, maybe I have an OCD.\n\nP.S. can anyone that sees this please click my name and answer my question.
257872
My sons bike was stolen when he was about 3 yrs old.  I would love to have catch them, but I do believe "what comes around goes around"...  well at least I try to believe it or else I would be running around with a baseball bat beating people...j/k
1002244
Having been a cyclist for nearly 40 years, and a driver for over 30 I have seen lots of examples of both very bad (i.e. mean and malicious) and very good drivers and bicyclists.  Unfortunately some people are plain mean and uncaring and when you put them in +2000 lbs of motor-powered metal, the whole world becomes their target.  Likewise I've had very nice, courteous people who go out of their way to make sure they give bicyclists plenty of room.  \nI personally have been purposely run off the road, not because I was riding improperly or on the wrong side of the road but because as the driver put it as he steered his car into me "the road belongs to cars, not f**king bicyclists".  I have had beer bottles and soda cans (full and empty) thrown at me and even had someone pull up beside me on a busy city street and push open the passenger door in an attempt to knock me off my bike.  I have also had motorists stop and wave me by (even though I had stopped for them because they had the right of way), or slow down or give me plenty of clearance with passing.  \nLikewise I have seen bicyclists be real jerks, like the club riders who insist on riding 4 or 5 abreast on a street making it impossible for cars to pass, then flipping off the drivers when they do try to go by.  I have also nearly hit bicyclists while in my car because they were riding on the wrong side of the street, at night, with no lights.  And unfortunately, I see these wrong-way riders much more often than I would prefer.\n\nIn short, you just have to be constantly on your guard and be aware that there will always be those a$$holes that have a chip on their shoulder against bicyclists as well as those clueless idiots that ride their bikes on the wrong side of the street or down one-way streets the wrong way.   I just try to be a decent person and set a good example whether I am riding or driving, and I know this goes against today's way of operating but I try to treat others as I would want to be treated myself.
284901
I am in a cycling club and had the occasion to notice a member on his 3-wheeler lowrider.  See sources for the web page and notify the president of your request; refer to "Wednesday Pizza Rides" and she will be able to tell you the 3-wheeler member or know who can.\n\nI recall with a smile the ride when the 3-wheeler pulled up next to me. He was blithely peddling along "in" his cycle like a man at home in a "Lazy-Boy". My ego won't let me admit how many times he passed me as I chugged along on my 2-wheeler.  Even more, I recall the faces of passersby as they broke into smiles as they stopped to stare as he went by.\n\nGood ridin' to ya, my friend!
283705
Can't say that I have...\n\nPerhaps you do it too much during the day and your body kicked into auto-pilot... have you ever driven home and not remember driving home?\n\nSlow down man, pace yourself, you don't want to hurt yourself...
120542
There was this one time I was exiting this building with a group of girls and the door guy opened the door for them (being a gentleman I let them exit first), but as soon as I got there he just let it close.  I thought that was discrimination to some extent.
336586
Are you nervous?? I used to do that whenever I was anxious or nervous about something. I would catch myself doing it and eventually I stopped. You just have to make a conscious effort not to do it.
276996
I dont think they are stupid, but I love how they are always riding a bike to visit folk and how if a male is not in the house they wont come in. Is so respectable.
960592
It's never happened to me, but  I'd put a lock on my door.  That would solve the problem, especially if they don't have the courtesy to knock first.
1164932
do you ever leave you home
729314
I agree.  I will say a little prayer for that girl that got hit.  I go to USC in LA and I ride a bike because its so convenient to get to and from school since parking is horrendous, but riding my bike is nothing less than frightening!  People do not look for pedestrians or bikers at ALL.  I have seen dozens of near hits, and actually witnessed 1 girl get hit on her bike pretty badly.  I've seen drivers who just don't even bother to look, and others that see pedestrians going across the walk when its their turn, but the drivers DON'T CARE!  They will just speed up and make their left or right turn right in front of the people trying to get across.  Its enough to give a person a heart attack.  Everyone is in such a hurry these days to get places, its so silly.  As drivers we have a responsibility to be SAFE, not just get ourselves where we need to go as speedilly as possible, and just not enough people realize that.  I really share in your frusteration...its so ridiculous...I never do stuff like that when I drive!