Raiméis

You know what get’s up my nose in Finland? Cyclists. Over here they cycle on the footpaths and not the roads. That’s not the problem as such, though I’d prefer them on the roads.
No, the problem is their attitude. Finnish cyclists seem to believe that they own the footpaths and pedestrians don’t exist. Maybe the same attitude exists in other countries, but it’s only here that I have noticed it.
Among the most annoying habits of the Finnish cyclist is cycling up behind you tinkling their fucking bell. It’s like a red rag to a bull, I’ve so often been tempted to turn around, rip the bell off the bike and shove it up the bell ringers ass!
I mean, fair enough the cyclist is going faster and wants to get by, but if you are walking behind someone and going faster do you stand behind them shouting “brrring brrring”? No you don’t, cos it’s fucking rude. So what gives cyclists the right to force you out of the way, can’t they be polite and just ask you to let them by rather than ringing their annoying bell and scoffing as they go by?
And that’s just if you are a pedestrian, god help you if you’re in a car and block the path of a cyclist … especially Helsinki cyclists. I was coming out of an apartment buildings car park one day, the exit was a gap between two high walls and required that I cross a footpath. Of course I had to stop on the footpath because there were cars coming both directions, which meant an unfortunate cyclist had to cycle around my car rather than on his chosen path and as he did so he started shouting obscenities at me. Then there’s this other case when we were in Helsinki, there was a car pulling in to a restaurant (Sipuli, the one beside Uspenski Cathedral) who needed to cross the footpath, a cyclist who was cycling by turned his bike around and blocked the path of the car to stop him from driving over the footpath! I mean, what the fuck is the problem!?! Why freak out about such little things? I just don’t understand why they make a big deal of such tiny things which can hardly even be called an inconvenience.
So listen Finnish cyclists, you don’t own the footpaths and please learn to take life a little less seriously.