Double Dipping

As a bicycle rider along Franklin Blvd. traffic, you have no idea how much I would love to see a double dip recession.

The assholes are back --two black guys were driving/racing their Monte and Caprice cars and both feigned plowing me over in the bike lane just before Florin Rd. this afternoon, both with aftermarket rims, one with a loud sound system. For whatever reason, this sort of thing stopped as soon as the recession hit in 2008, but it is now resuming again.

I suppose I should stop short on speculating why these people weren't out on Franklin Blvd. over the last two years lest I be held up as a white bigot...but I won't.

No, my gut feeling tells me that if you're an asshole driver, you are also likely an asshole at work, and you prolly ain't quite so employable relative to people with decency. First fired. Maybe that's why these people -- the black guys weaving down Franklin in their POS cars with fine wheels, the white alpha male jerkoffs in Explorers gunning it straight from the right hand turn lane -- maybe they were soaking up those 99 weeks of unemployment benefits and now it's the end of the line, now having to go back to work to keep driving their rigs. They get off work, whatever work where being an asshole is acceptable, slam a few Steel Reserves and pretend to roll over a guy riding his little bicycle.

The market is 10% off, oil is washing ashore in Louisiana, incumbents are being replaced by future incumbents, Greeks are being tear-gassed over some salary cuts -- hey, there's still a chance for a double dip, eh?