Today's pet peeve...

Bicyclists who don't follow the rules.

Scenario #1: Two cyclists riding the wrong way up my one way street at 10pm. However, they were wearing helmets AND their bikes had lights. Grade: A-

Scenario #2: Girl riding bike in front of me. Not wearing a helmet (okay, I don't wear one all the time either, and it's not a law, so fine). Swerves in front of me to make a left hand turn. Fine. I was going slow because of her anyways, and she looked, but she didn't signal AT ALL. Grade: B.

Scenario #3: I approach a stop sign and slow to a stop. Man on bike and kid on bike behind him approach from the opposite direction (no stop sign for them), but they are in my lane. And...there is a sidewalk available. [Note: bicyclists generally should not ride on the sidewalk, but I think there are exceptions to that rule, especially if there are no pedestrians. Plus this is admittedly a crazy intersection.] As I stop at the stop sign, the guy looks at me, and I boldly make eye contact because I am ticked that he is showing complete disregard for traffic laws. Then, as he passes my open passenger side window, he has the audacity to say "Move the f*** over." It is a good thing he was going the opposite direction because otherwise I would have had to tell him to shut the hell up before I moved him the F out of the way with my bumper. You are a VEHICLE! You have to obey traffic laws too! And put a helmet on that kid because he is definitely younger than twelve. And it's rush hour. Grade: F-

To be honest, I was sort of a jerk and intentionally stopped in the middle of the lane when I saw what he was planning on doing. My (insincere) apologies.