Wtf? Would it kill ya to smile?

The only folks I come across, whilst on my bike, who are friendly and polite and genuinally happy towards me, are the older and the younger. I wizz past the old fella with his dog, an older lady doin' her thing, kids, wee kids, mums & kids, an old couple I'd like to be one day, still holding hands, still in love (or maybe they just met?), I smile & wave and chortle 'Hi!!' and they smile and sing back, something nice, something interesting, something funny.

I smile at a lycra dude, aplogising cos I'm kind of living in the moment, speed wind in my face and paying no heed to the lane direction. He growls at me, 'yeah, go ahead and take both lanes...' miserable tosser.

We're out with the kids, obviously much slower on the trail this way. To the couple racing up behind us, I smile and say,  'hi, sorry, are we in your way? 'I'll move over.'
'No, just go faster...' he grumbles.
I fair wanted to challange him to a bike race right there. Yeah...like to see you beat my Felt on that thing.

I don't want to be like them.

Why does the human race constantly have to fill itself up with near-sighted, narrow-minded, racist, bigoted, nasty dregs? Ok, harsh? But come on. Is even polite decency beyond the effort in our flailing society? Impolite cyclists maybe a stretch in comparison to the blear and dispair of our abusive, murderous, often beyond bearable universe, but if you can't even show civility out in the glorious sun, man, we're truly fucked.