Makes you wonder . . .

This morning, I went for a long ride on my recumbent trike. I have a brightly colored flag on my low trike to help drivers see me. I was at a fairly busy intersection this morning, crossing after waiting for the "walk" sign. The big car turning right stopped for me. That was nice. The car behind the stopped car honked the horn for a solid 10 seconds. That was not nice. I'm going to assume the honking car didn't see me; otherwise that driver was mad at the stopped car for not running over me. Did the honking car's driver (the honking driver) really think the stopped driver had stopped for no reason?!!?! Do people really believe there couldn't be anything happening that they are unaware of? Why does everybody just assume that everybody else is stupid? Why are people always in such a hurry? I was mostly struck at the honking driver not thinking that maybe there was a good reason the stopped car was stopped.

By the way, if you drive a big car and stopped at an intersection to let a lady on a trike cross the street this morning, thank you for not running me over.
And if you honked at someone who stopped their car, or yelled at someone who did something that you didn't like, consider that they may have had a good reason for doing what they did.