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The original was posted on /r/cycling by /u/SuperZapper_Recharge on 2023-10-03 15:44:17.

I had an incident last night. It was close. I could have been seriously hurt. I was riding up a hill, visibility at the top of the hill is exactly like any other hill- not good. It wasn’t safe to pass. She passed. Another car popped up over the lip…

I gave her the finger, she saw, and road rage against me commenced.

She would drive, park her car and just watch me approach trying to intimidate me. The first time she did it I took out my cell and pretended to take a picture. Whatever she thought she was gonna do I think she got the message.

But then she proceeded to do it twice more.

She was like 18.

I was talking to my wife and told her that when this crap happens I just get so angry. I mean, I have nothing. I am meat on a stick. And I have no tools at all to push back. None. I don’t even have a horn I can push to make myself feel better.

And the punchline is that in a true altercation I am simply incapable of winning. I have no winning move.

And when someone has done something that threatens me being able to hug my kids that night, all of it together just gets me angry.

Giving them the finger is the only tool I have in the bag.

Is it ever a good idea?