Bikers. Can I just say, as a regular pedestrian, how much bicyclists in the city piss me off sometimes? Most cyclists are fine and obey traffic rules, but there are also those who zip through red lights when I’m about to enter the crosswalk and those who zoom down one-way streets going in the wrong direction and nearly run me over because I’m looking in the direction from which traffic is supposed to come. (The latter are usually deliverymen.)

I get the impression that these people think they’re so superior because they’re not polluting the atmosphere by driving a car and they’re getting some exercise, too. They need to realize that although they are not drivers, they are not pedestrians, either. Cars can kill cyclists, but cyclists can seriously hurt pedestrians.

It’s like the old cartoons where dog > cat > mouse. The car is the dog and the bike is the cat and I’m the mouse. Cyclists need to remember that they’re in the middle of the food chain, not at the bottom.