When just riding your bike round town is seen as a provocative act rather than the celebration of the freedom to be able to ride, chat and interact with the world this is what you get from cagers. An aggressive Taxi driver crosses the centre line bumps into Tom's back wheel and then gets very annoyed at a mere slap on the bonnet. The tosser gets out of his cab to drag Tom off his bike. You will notice that once the tosser has left everything calms down very quickly and the ride goes on.
Glad you were OK! In the USA it's very unwise to touch someone's vehicle because people see it as an extension of their own bodies, almost. If you slap a car it's as if you've slapped a person. And then there's the thing that so many people are packing here. Hmmm, maybe I should move back...
HowardFair 4 years ago