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An apology to the young lady in the supermarket parking lot...

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Dear young lady, I sincerely apologize for interrupting your phone call with my steibel horn. I know my tall, bright orange bike with the bright aux led lights can be very hard to see in broad daylight, and that I should have given your left turn into the parking lot right of way over my right turn; especially in the absence of traffic lights. I truly appreciate the "well go then" gesture you gave me when you came to that sudden stop. I didn't mean to delay you. I also appreciate your patience with me when I followed and confronted you. You were correct to tell me to f%@k off. Bravo for not dropping your cigarette as I, for one, couldn't possible juggle a phone, smoke, and left turn across a busy street; you are truly a skilled multitasker.
Yours Truly,
a guy who is always looking for people who aren't.
 
I hear ya...I had a very similar situation. It wasnt till she made the mistake of blocking herself with a curb in front of her as I stalked he through 3 different parking spaces. I think she could tell from my eyes that our conversation had better be started with her very humble apology. She also had the nerve to explain that she rode as well, like that would make me want to choke her less. Cooler heads prevailed but Im guessing it may be a while before she does that again.
It was actually somewhat comical watching the panic in her eyes as she tried different parking spots to see if I was still following.
Shiny side up kids!!! Watch the other guy and ALWAYS ASSUME THEY DO NOT SEE YOU.
Cheers Sadz
 
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Great post OP and sadly so very true.
 
+1

happens way too often. had a car decide they should roll a stop sign turning left on me when I had no stop sign. As I passed her, I watched he mouth off at me behind her closed window... have a nice day lady :rolleyes: getting to the Timmies is way more important then my getting home to my family
 
Gsus said:
Dear young lady, I sincerely apologize for interrupting your phone call with my steibel horn. I know my tall, bright orange bike with the bright aux led lights can be very hard to see in broad daylight, and that I should have given your left turn into the parking lot right of way over my right turn; especially in the absence of traffic lights. I truly appreciate the "well go then" gesture you gave me when you came to that sudden stop. I didn't mean to delay you. I also appreciate your patience with me when I followed and confronted you. You were correct to tell me to f%@k off. Bravo for not dropping your cigarette as I, for one, couldn't possible juggle a phone, smoke, and left turn across a busy street; you are truly a skilled multitasker.
Yours Truly,
a guy who is always looking for people who aren't.
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Nice post. She also was not so selfish as she could have also been applying make up, drinking hot coffee, wouldn`t want her to spill that. Talking to her kids in the back, whilst turning to look at them. changing her shoes, flicking her cigarette out the window. Looking at herself in the mirror, saying how wonderful she is, above and better than bikers, everybody. "Gsus" happy to hear that you survived. Sorry to say that all this applies to men as well. I like to think what goes around will come back and haunt them. You are a gentleman, better to stay safe and out of trouble. Not worth going to prison for. I had a friend that would just go up to them and say, "Boy, are you ever ugly" then leave very slowly and not give them a chance to respond.
 
Sadz said:
ALWAYS ASSUME THEY DO NOT SEE YOU.
Cheers Sadz
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x 1 million in a parking lot. If you want to see dangerous hilarity, go to the Queensway Canadian Tire (Lowes and BB&B share the same lot). People regularly fly through the clealy marked intersections, even the blind ones blocked by fleet parking and shipping containers. Yes, there are usually pedestrians with carts/kids trying to cross.

That's not the worst of it anymore, though. You sort of expect the awful skills of Toronto's motorists to get worse without excessive signage, roadmarkings, intersections and cops. What I didn't expect was a small forklift being driven erratically by an obese woman whose attention was split between careening over the storefront speedbumps and FINDING THE RIGHT SONG ON HER IPOD. That thing was going, what, 50km/hr? I didn't realize they could go that fast.

Keep those eyes peeled, folks. Double peeled if possible.
 
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Gsus said:
Dear young lady, I sincerely apologize for interrupting your phone call with my steibel horn....
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Sadz said:
I hear ya...I had a very similar situation. It wasnt till she made the mistake of blocking herself with a curb in front of her as I stalked he through 3 different parking spaces...
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suzuki2000 said:
+1

happens way too often. had a car decide they should roll a stop sign turning left on me when I had no stop sign. As I passed her, I watched he mouth off at me behind her closed window...
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Flywheel said:
What I didn't expect was a small forklift being driven erratically by an obese woman whose attention was split between careening over the storefront speedbumps and FINDING THE RIGHT SONG ON HER IPOD. That thing was going, what, 50km/hr? I didn't realize they could go that fast...
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Guys I think I found the problem :rolleyes:
 
Woodbridge?
 
Personally. I think all parking lots in and around shopping malls/food stores are dangerous.
 
LePhillou said:
Personally i think all places are dangerous.
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+10000. I'm still a newb (3rd season), but after my first "He could have killed me" situation season 1, I ride like everyone is trying to kill me. I saw that girl making the turn in enough time to stop safely, but laid on the horn and followed her to push a point. If I had been looking into my turn instead of scanning for traffic (easy enough to do), she would have hit me.
 
Gsus said:
... but laid on the horn and followed her to push a point...
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I turned and followed the lady that almost hit me to TH, she decided to turn out and skip the coffee, and I ended up following her doen the service road onto the highway for about 20kms. not that I was trying to "follow her" after the parking lot but she was going the same way as I had to.

What started to become funny, way I began thinking that she might call the cops to tell them that a nasty bad biker was following her although, I was simply just trying to get to work after she ditched TIMS', just happened to be in the same direction she was going
 
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