I mean, “car crashes into a stationary car” often gets the same response.

The idiot behind the wheel is somehow never at fault.

Once, in a rather affluent California town, I was stopped with the front of my car halfway in the bike lane so I could view oncoming traffic from the left, in order to pull out. I watched for several seconds as a man on a bike road straight towards me and accidentally ran into my stationary car. There was no damage, and he was unharmed.

I rolled down my window to apologize, as my car was technically in the bike lane. When I did so, this man scowled at me as if I had slapped his mother, and rode off in a huff.

I suppose the moral of this story is that anyone can be an asshole, but try extra hard to not be an asshole when you’re in the machine that can kill.

Cars kill people and are incredibly scary up close

Bicycles kill only their rider when the matrix makes them run red rights and stop signs

A cyclist brake-checked the bus I was riding in.

I still think of that man. And I hope when he got his wish that his organs helped others.

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