Damn cagers

[dagibbs]

It isn't that they're out to get us, at least mostly it isn't. It is just that they don't look, and nearly kill us anyway.

I was riding up Bronson, in the left lane, a couple blocks short of Somerset, when a guy in a station wagon decides to make a right turn in front of me. He doesn't go into the completely clear for a ways behind me right lane, though -- he goes directly across into the left lane, right in front of me. Hard braking and a swerve around him preserved me -- luckily I noticed him inching forward, was ready, and read his wide turn. I wonder if he realized why I honked my horn at him as I came past him. Or did he just think I was an annoying biker?

(edit: I didn't know "cagers" was slang for basketball players. For motorcyclists, it is slang for those people who drive around with 4 walls (that is a cage) around them.)

Comments

[foms.livejournal.com]

How do you know that he plays basketball?[g]

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I am SO confused. I think you must be being clever, but I am so not following it.

[clinkerfiasco.livejournal.com]

cagers is slang for basketball players. It's the first thought that came to mind when you posted as well.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Ah! I had no idea.

Cagers is motorcyclist slang for people who drive around with 4 walls (that is a cage) around them.

[beable]

Your other friends are soooooo weird.
I assumed from the context (I was riding up Bronson) that cagers was a motorcycle slang that I just didn't recognize.

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

*gah* sorry to hear it. I'm a cager, but I try to be extra cautious around the vulnerable (bikes) and the awkward (trucks) -- for different reasons. (And while I'd been familiar with your definition for a decade or more, I'd not heard the basketball one.)