The man truly believes that the culture is
becoming more and more rude, impatient,

angry, fearful, resentful and ultimately
more violent and he feels caught up and

allowing himself to be brought down in
all the negativity and hostility. He even

has to read his three morning meditations
over a couple of times because his mind

wanders off in negative directions and he
thinks he knows the reasons why all this

is happening, which seem pretty obvious
but he will let the sociologists give a

defining critique of the era. He then
stopped his car just short of the biking/

hiking/walking lane at the intersection,
as a cyclist rode through, waved and said

thanks. He just sat there for a minuscule
moment (in what later he thought had

been a near catatonic state of gratitude)
taking it in and giving thanks for that

solitary cyclist until the guy behind him
in a big Beemer blew the horn jarring the

man…back to the future.