I don’t know anything about the origins of this sticker, but I like it, especially as a sound response to the many things that strangers attempt to tell me to do when I’m commuting:
- smile
- cross against the light
- ride on the sidewalk
- get off the street
- turn right from a lane that allows more than one option (see sign right), even though my plan is to go straight. They honk and honk in an attempt to bully me out of the way so that they can save a precious ten seconds. This has only ever happened when I am on my bicycle — never when in a car. It is as if using a different mode of transportation makes people forget how the rules of the road work. And before anyone chimes in with their example of how they’ve been honked at in a car, stop for a moment and seriously mull over what is being shared here. Motorists — encased in their boxes and separated from the
environment — lay on the horn while I obey the law. There is no sound buffer for someone on a bicycle. This often happens at intersections where there is no right turn on red, as seen in the screenshot of a Google map of a place where this exact scenario happened again a few days ago. I hear, non-stop, from folks with windshield bias, complaints about what scofflaws cyclists are, but when I follow the rules, a motorist will try to use their size and volume to scoot me out of the way. What even is that?!