adrenaline

Adrenaline gave me a good workout yesterday during my daily noon workout at our rec center. Reason being I nearly got run over by an idiot 4-wheeler driver - some mental moron - as I was riding my bicycle to the gym. Stewing about the near death experience (I wasn't wearing a helmet) kept my mind off my old age aches and pain while I worked on upper body strength exercises.

I was riding my bike north on Division St. and the asshole was speeding west (coming from my right) on 4th Ave. There's a house on that corner that blocks the view only for speeders coming from his direction. This guy crossed his lane into the east bound lane well before the intersection so he could cut the corner - drive across the house's property thereby avoiding the intersection all together -at a good rate of speed. When he was finally around the house he saw me on the bicycle and went into a skid as he hit the brakes - helping him change direction some and avoiding me before speeding off to the southwest.

Less than a block later I had worked up enough wits/rage that I was ready to turn around and follow him. As it was lunch I was guessing he might have stopped at the Hansen's grocery store for lunch, or perhaps the Airport Pizza lunch spot. If I'd turned around immediately I might have seen where he went. I was thinking I would go jerk the spark plug wire off his machine. But dang, I didn't get a good look at his 4-wheeler and would probably vandalize some old man's hapless machine. So I took it out on the weights.

People like to cut corners. I've had to dig a speed bump across our corner lot property to keep jerks from cutting the corner and hitting us as we step out our door. Or even clipping our house with the truck mirror. Cab drivers - I've seen them drive over people's belongings in their yards as they try to cut over someone's property. I had a block of wood on our corner to try and stop corner cutters before I dug the ditch. A cab driver drove over it and lucky for him - it was just rotten enough to split apart and not cause more damage to his vehicle. Double dang!