In case it does not, the section I want to comment on starts at 3:54.

Idiots in low powered bikes having fisticuffs in the middle of the road and blocking a lane of traffic. Here comes somebody in a car, becomes a dick and runs over bikes and one of the guys. That would be a way that many people would interpret what we saw. For some of us, it is a different way to look at it.

When I saw it the first time, I found myself nodding in approval (mostly) about the car driver’s overall behavior. Am I a jerk-off anti motorcycle? I am pleading the 5th on that one, but I have been in a similar situation and it was a trap. It was an attempted carjacking.

It is interesting to see that after 20 years of continuous living in the US (Holy crap, that long?) I have not been able to shake off certain experiences. I am much better now, there was a time when a biker behind me in traffic just doing nothing but following the traffic laws would set my warning bells off. In one particular case, my wife was able to crack that particular after she saw me tense up behind the wheel and suddenly wear my cannibal face. She asked me what was wrong and I explained that we were being followed by a motorcycle.  Knowing what that mean, she looked behind us and laughed while assuring me that somebody in a Harley Davidson was a very very unlikely candidate for a carjacking or sicario attack and that probably he was just simply riding his bike.

But if my experiences were not enough, events that happened to very close friends are mental reinforcements: The wife of my childhood friend of 50 years was gunned down in traffic by a couple of motorcycle-riding assholes who were  trying to rob her and couldn’t get her to stop. Another friend and former colleague was not long ago sitting in deadlocked traffic when he felt a metallic tap on his window which turned out to be a gun aimed at his face by a rider who cleaned him up of all his belonging with exception of his glasses and the car itself. The same thing or worse has happened to acquaintances of mine through the years.

It might be silly and even selfish on my part, but it is my past experiences with motorcycles that puts me against favoring Lane Splitting laws in Florida (It is illegal in case you did not know.)

Does that mean I will run over anybody with a motorcycle doing something weird? No, although some assholes riding crotch rockets do deserve some attitude adjustment. But at the same time I know I will never be comfortable behind the wheel when motorcycle divers are acting the fool near me.

I guess the point I am trying to make is that you use your experiences to modify your tactics and adapt to future events. You do not let the experiences control your behavior and make it irrational or foolish. But it is not a simple task, specially when events like this happen :

I usually stay home that day 😀