My commute this morning (Its a 2km mooch in work clothing) was a little less idyllic and included stopping at a stop street next to a guy in a merc on his cell phone looking right while almost pulling out in front of an ambulance, sirens wailing bombing down the road we were trying to cross on the wrong side of the road with a silver corsa lite tailgaiting it. The corsa was piloted by a crew of morons with their toddler on the mother moron's lap and kids in the back seat. Tailgaiting them were 2 taxis also on the wrong side of the road, all doing 60kmph next to column of stationart traffic other a kilometer long headed towards liebeek parkway.
As the pandemonium of that died down and I snuck across the road to the 20 meter little stretch until the next stop street, I got hooted at aggressively by a car that had turned behind me for not being on the left of the road.
I lost my cool.
"Are you seriously f$#$ hooting at me on my bicycle after that sh#$3 show?"
But you're right - it's great riding past thousands of tons of metal and plastic sitting in frustrated queues, seeing the regulars, the kids walking to school, the bergie at the dustbin, the other people on bikes .... the more I do it the more utterly bonkers private car ownership looks.
