This is what happens when you open your car door without checking your mirror: Yes, if you make that mistake, that bus will crunch your car door real good. And yes, that did happen, despite this picture angle and the sun’s glare not showing it in detail. And yes, that bus full of passengers will have to disembark to wait for the next bus, so there will be plenty of strangers to gawk while you and the bus driver figure it all out. And certainly there might be one amongst that gaggle who will snap a picture for posterity. But will you realise that those two white lines to the side of your car are the boundaries of a bike lane, and that this street is a busy one for bicyclists? It could just as easily have been a biker that you doored, instead of getting your door wrecked by a bus. This kind of inattentiveness is why I’ve pretty much given up on my work bike commute. In other news, here’s a picture of an abandoned syringe I took while waiting for the bus one morning:
…climb out of the bus and do the boogie-woogie, man. Bif a big cars be dissolving. The little one wouldah be dead.