mile 145 Don't grow up to be that bum!

As I was bicycling between East Quoque and Hampton Bay, I marveled at the surroundings. There was stretches of beautiful coastlines everywhere. The roads were magnificent, there was even a bicycle lane for me to ride on. As I road on the bike path, a huge Mercedes SUV came behind me. It honked like 3 or 4 times behind me for some reason. I was wondering why the car couldn't simply pass around me, since we were on a 2 lane road, and I was on the designated bike path. As I coasted to a halt by a stop light, the SUV came up right next to me and it's windows rolled down. Inside there sat a middle aged Asian woman with her son. She was actually pretty good looking as I recall. "Get off the road and let normal people drive" she yelled. I was very tired and in a lot of physical discomfort to argue, so I simply shrugged. Then the woman said something to her son in the Shanghainese dialect. Little did she know that I too was born in Shanghai. She told her son, "see him, don't you grow up to be like that bum." And with that, she drove the SUV past me.