{"id":565,"date":"2005-12-23T14:10:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T22:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/here_are_my_wings_please_clip_them.html"},"modified":"2005-12-23T14:10:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T22:10:57","slug":"here_are_my_win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/here_are_my_win.html","title":{"rendered":"Here Are My Wings . . . Please Clip Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is just to say<\/em>: I am an impatient, overly aggressive and just plain bad bicyclist, and the best thing about the transit strike ending is that I am off the road.<\/p>\n<p>So in a sort of holiday spirit, I would like to take the opportunity to apologize to several pedestrians whom I scolded or cursed at. (NB: This in no way releases you from what at the time were obvious, inexcusable transgressions &#8212; it&#8217;s just to admit that my response was perhaps excessive.) Please note the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To the middle-aged woman in the black overcoat at 60th Street and Park Avenue on the morning of December 21, 2005 at whom I yelled &#8220;Lady, get out of the way!&#8221; &#8212; I&#8217;m sorry, I really should have just slowed down and allowed you to cross against the light; and being stressed out that morning still does not excuse me from sneering &#8220;Hey, Lady&#8221; at you.<\/li>\n<li>To the middle-aged gentleman at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue on the evening of December 21, 2005 &#8212; &#8220;Get the fuck out of the way!&#8221; was perhaps an overly aggressive way to express what I really felt, which was something more along the lines of, &#8220;Please take care not to walk directly in front of a long line of bicyclists trying to cross the street, particularly when you are walking against the light.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>To the group of three pedestrians at 60th Street and Park Avenue on the morning of December 22, 2005 at whom I yelled, &#8220;Get out of the way!&#8221; &#8212; <em>while actually speeding up<\/em> &#8212; I apologize; even though (again) you were crossing the street against the light, in speeding up to almost hit you I was perhaps acting too aggressively.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, to the near-elderly woman in the black fur coat at 59th Street and Third Avenue on the evening of December 22, 2005 who was crossing against the light &#8212; the one at whom I yelled &#8220;Lady, get out of the way&#8221; and who snapped something indecipherable at me &#8212; I am sorry for making the extra effort to turn around while I was almost through the intersection and yelling &#8220;fuck you&#8221;; yelling &#8220;fuck you&#8221; is probably never justified, especially when I wasn&#8217;t exactly sure what you said, and especially because yelling obscenities at the elderly is rude, unseemly behavior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That said, I am <strong>emphatically unapologetic<\/strong> about flipping off the idiot in the blue minivan who drove right in front of me at 45th Avenue and 23rd Street in Queens. In fact, I would have yelled, too, were it not for the fact that he could not hear me. To you, Sir &#8212; Watch out for bicyclists, you stupid moron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just to say: I am an impatient, overly aggressive and just plain bad bicyclist, and the best thing about the transit strike ending is that I am off the road. 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