EPIDEMIC on the ROAD!!!

Bike riders face this every day they ride the roads. Some days the effort is harder than others. Not the effort or strain of getting up hills or going fast. The effort of just getting out on the bike. Doing the training. Not these efforts. The effort of staying alive and healthy. Safe from the brothers and sisters in cars, trucks and motor cycles. The drivers caught up in their own dreams and nightmares. Not seeing the need to put the cel phone down and drive. Not knowing the dangers of putting on their makeup while driving. Not understanding the speed and weight they carry as drivers on the road. The vehicles that are weapons going at speeds that kill every day. The litter of death I see on the roads all the time. Small bodies, birds, opossums, cats, dogs, and raccoons. Lots of other bodies to. Cars, trucks and motor cycles are weapons in the hands of the unaware. Unaware of the world right in front of their bumpers. The road ahead. Keeping an eye out on the road and thinking what the hell they are doing in their cars, trucks, and motor cycles.
As you might guess. Yesterday was the day that no one on a bike, on the road, was safe. Every mile I road was dangerous. Not the days when the vehicles are kind and looking out. The days when you are given room and courtesy. The days when every strait away, turn, corner and intersection is a hazard zone. If you think the car is going to pull in front of you. It does! I mean all day this happened. I got cut off, turned on, moved over, and all the other bad insults that you get. This was a ride that I would not be safe till I was off the bike at the front door of my place. It was every where like a illness running through a community. Everyone but a few had it. Even with eye contact, the drivers still pulled in front of me. Almost as though the driver had no control of their own. It was just a bad day on the road. It was every where. An epidemic of crazy, bad tempered, lazy, unaware, self centered, killers on the road. Dam! Till the last turn, of the last corner, just 1/4 mile from the door step of the condo. I was glad to be alive. I was glad to be alive when I left to! Man what a ride.
It is my position to trust no one on my rides. NO ONE!! It keeps me alive. I know the tricks to slow the folks driving behind me. Or the tricks to make the car pass wide. I always ride in a bike lane when there is one. Still, bikes with skinny tires need to look out for rocks, glass and dead animals. Everyone of these are hazards to cause a crash. All bikers need to avoid hazards. We need the room sometimes. All these hazards are from, cars, trucks and motorcycles. We all need to ride aggressive to be in control. What a day. There not all so bad. Some are great. Yesterday was a reminder to trust NO ONE on the road. Dam!!