Motorcycles and Meyhem

Granted, it's not motorcycle season. However, as I read a dilapidated bumper sticker laden in road salt on the truck in front of me, I glare. I feel my blood boil. I am angry.

The bumper sticker merely informs me to share the road with motorcycles.

Share the road with motorcycles? How can one share a road with a two-wheeled vehicle that swerves in and out of traffic? How does one share the road with a tiny vehicle that drives in invisible lanes between visible ones? How does one share the road with a miniature travel device that speeds by so quickly that one questions whether something went by at all?

How can one share the road with an unpredictable, invisible blur?

I propose my own bumper sticker: FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE ROAD MOTORCYCLES

Do not speed crazily in and out of lanes. Do not whiz between two vehicles. Do not exceed 100 mph. Use your signals. Above all, wear your helmets.

We can't share the road with what you won't let us see, damn it.