People,

Being a motorcyclist can be annoying. You're definitely a second class citizen on the roads and you need to learn to always be on the lookout for other bad drivers. You also always have a hard time at full-serve gas stations with employees who try to insist on filling your tank. This is annoying because a motorcycle gas tank is surprisingly hard to fill. The tank's small size and irregular shape make spills and scratches almost inevitable if you don't know what you're doing. Ironically, gas station employees get mad when you want to do their job for them and you end up arguing with a lot of them. Also, on new gas pumps with the that funky rubber emissions collar, you have to trick the pump into working by pulling the collar back and holding it by hand. There's also the issues of drivers throwing things out their windows that hit you, like cigarettes and wrappers, and let's not forget about getting smacked by kicked up pebbles on the freeway.

Anyway, I list a few of the annoyances I face as a biker to set up my story. These things all get under your skin but really aren't all that bad. However, I was talking to another rider about these very annoyances and he said "I definitely know what it's like now to be discriminated against." Um, what? Getting cut off by some chain smoking old lady keys you into what it's like to be hated because of what you look like or who you have sex with or what you believe?

People are stupid.