Water Cooler

Setting: B is on break with another intern at one of her college internships when the topic of bicyclists came up.

Now, we have all had at least one experience with a bicyclist-- either in our way or not waiting at a red light, or instead, riding their bikes into the middle of the intersection and oncoming traffic making every motorist stop or yield to them because, after all, who really wants to hit the person on the bike?

Well it just so happens that the other intern has a friend that used to be a bicyclist. B picks up the on the wording, "used to be," and automatically wonders what happened. So, she asks. The other interns tells her the story:

"Well, she was riding her bike one day when a car pulled up beside her. The kids in the car took out a paintball gun and started shooting paintballs at her. She came home covered in them and had bruises from them too."

Lesson: While bicyclists can be annoying to motorist, motorists can be down right dangerous to bicyclists.