People,

Today on the way to work I witnessed something rather peculiar. At a red light, as I sat idly idling on Mr. Bumbles next to a woman in a Chevy Caprice, she rolled down her window.

Now, at first I thought she was going to ask me directions. People frequently do this when I'm on the bike, completely disregarding the fact that I have no god damn idea where anything is or what on earth the streets are called.

Anyway, even though we were separated by just a couple feet, she did not ask directions. She instead poured her coffee out the window. I thought this was a little rude, since I was right there and got some splatters on my boots, but I'm trying to be less irritated by stupid crap like this and so I let it go.

Then she poured the remnants of a Pepsi bottle out the window. Then she poured water from a water bottle into her coffee cup, swished it around and poured that out the window. At this point I said "Er, excuse me, but you're getting all of this on my foot." She was not having it and shot me a "I'm having a bad day already so shut the hell up" look. Fair enough. She then poured water into the empty Pepsi bottle, swished, and the poured that out the window. At this point, with my boot covered in a sludgy mixture of coffee, Pepsi, water and backwash, I was too incredulous to even be mad. It was just plain weird.

The light changed and she tore off straight while I turned left. She's probably dumping her second cup of coffee into the cubicle next to hers right now.

People are weird.