I realized today that...

In response to the bike post a few days ago: (this would have been a comment on it, but i didn't feel like scrolling through the plethora of recent procrastination driven posts to find it. (If you have a problem with that bernice, write about it in a housekeeping post (brackets within brackets)))

I realized today that...

I enjoy being a jerk. sometimes.
with a few conditions. above all - anonymity - which is plentiful in a big old metropolis, as is Montreal.

As i biked along milton this morning toward campus, a the expense of risking my life twice, i felt immense pleasure being a dick to cars.
situation 1) cycling through the milton aylmer intersection: there's a stop sign. there's usually traffic trying to cut through the oodles of pedestrians at peak in between class times. It was pretty empty when i came to the junction. A taxi was about to continue through the intersection north on aylmer, his right of way, when i decided to trudge on through and cut him off.
I could have stopped.

but i realized, that bikers don't follow conventional rules of the road, such as stopping at a a stop sign or obeying a red light simply because: it sucks!

There was no way i was going to stop at that stop sign. Coming to a complete stop on a bike, and then having to get going again, especially on a flat plane adds about thirty seconds to a trip (i'm not in shape. it takes a long time to get going.. k?)

and with the mishmash of, frankly, quite confusing pedestrian traffic signals, and street lights at tiny intersections that could do just fine with a stop sign, that could be a total of a whole 2 minutes on my trip.

not going to fly.

anyways. im not going to describe situation two. it was too similar to situation one.
but i did enjoy advancing the efficiency of my own commute, and screwing over a taxi cab and brutish mcgill delivery guy along the way.

ha!