It was a beautiful, early June Friday morning in Dublin and I decided to walk to my 9:30 am meeting.
The heavy commuter traffic had passed, the sun was shining, there was that happy ‘Friday feeling’ and everything was good in the world.
As I walked along Mount Street in the direction of Merrion Square I approached the traffic lights opposite Holles Street Hospital. I noticed a smartly dressed guy on a black bicycle waiting for the traffic lights to turn green – he was wearing beige chinos and a navy blazer.
Isn’t Dublin a cool, progressive city I thought!
Just as I crossed the lights I heard an out of nowhere angry exchange between the smartly dressed cyclist and someone else. I’m not sure who the other person was as I didn’t want to turn around and admit that this perfect morning could be gatecrashed by pointless, raw aggression between total strangers.
“It’s a red light” one voice yelled.
“Fuck off” the other one yelled back.
I wasn’t shocked to hear this and I’ve certainly heard a lot worse, but this common “rage” between pedestrians, cyclists and motorists is utterly pointless and beyond stupid.
Why can’t we all just calm down, de-stress, go about our business nicely and respectively and appreciate that we have it good, really good.
We live in a great country (despite some problems) and if our biggest issue is a “competition” between others as we all try to get to where we are going, then we should take a deep breath and think about what real issues might look like.
Greg
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