how was your monday?

it's mostly a certain demographic and it's not easy to not be racist/sexist/etcist about it, but recently automobile drivers are becoming more brazen and more often. who they are is irrelevant because ignorance can plague any man, but what they do is infuriating. for instance, i'll be stopped at a stoplight, on my bike, waiting for it to turn green. then a car will pull up behind me and start honking as if i were a brain-dead cow they were trying to usher off the road so that they could pull up ten feet closer to the crosswalk.

one time in particular, a driver recognized me as a species capable of language and rolled down their window to holler at me to get off the road. i was overcome with anger. not fear. not annoyance. not love for my fellow, misguided man. no, it was wrath. however, not lacking self-control either, i merely looked behind me and yelled back that i had the same rights as a car.

"no you don't!" the driver replied without hesitation. after that comment i half expected the driver to proceed to run me over.

but then i replied, "in fact you are mistaken, ma'am/sir, because i do! now, please do everyone a favor and look it up!"

"go!" they hollered back.

i turned forward to see that the light had turned green and now i was holding up traffic.