Dear (_____)

Dear cyclist,

Driving a standard shift automobile involves fifty times the life or death and destruction decisions and judgement calls per 20 feet of road than piloting your bicycle.  Sorry I misjudged two of the literally tens of thousands of judgement calls I had to make today on my way home.

To be honest, diving into an intersection the instant it turned red was not a great call on your part either.  At any rate, next time, as someone who rides bicycles too and has been through several dozen mishaps, I would advise that you brush it off instead of standing astride your frame with your middle finger in the air.  Nothing makes things worse than trying to stage a demonstration of "what the hell, man?!  You all saw how innocent I was, right?! Fuck that guy!" at a busy intersection while everyone tries to make a decision or judgement call to wait or push their thousands of pounds of automobile around your tiny moment in a river of tens of thousands more.

Not everyone is trying  to fuck you.