Letter of the Day: Oblivious to reality

I apologize if this sounds terse, but who gets heated about bicyclists? Really.

Before I continue, please note that I don’t ride a bike. I consider myself completely impartial.

What concerns me about our roads isn’t some 165-pound bicyclist. Rather, it’s crazy teenagers and oblivious seniors driving four-ton Cadillacs within three feet of anything, much less a vulnerable bicyclist.

Also, I don’t understand a letter writer’s use of quotations around the words “bike lanes” and “vehicles.” Are these words not common vernacular? Are they symbols?

Letters to the editor, in general, bother me. Not too far away from Naples, people are dying of starvation and treatable diseases. There’s the threat of nuclear terrorism, ecological collapse.

Yet, Kathleen Heller takes time from her “busy day” to complain about an exerciser who may have failed to use a hand signal at a four-way stop in Pelican Bay.

Good stuff.

Nathan Schwessinger/Naples