I was riding home from my dentist appointment on Friday.

Weird related incident #1:

As I was riding through the downtown core, I stopped along with another cyclist at a light. As it turned green, a police car flashes its siren, comes around the corner, and tells my signal-awaiting companion to "STAY ON THE SIDEWALK!". As I bike away, I hear the detained cyclist murmer a little _SHIT.

Weird related incident #2:

Now, on my way home, I often ride on the sidewalk, since a) it's safer than driving with the somewhat insane and unbikefriendly Edmonton drivers, and b) I ride southbound on the east side of the street , since that's the side I live on (and would be riding in oncoming traffic were I to ride on the street).

This particular time, however, I ran into a little bout of weirdness.

As I was riding along the sidewalk, I spotted two elderly pedestrians: an elderly woman heading the same direction as me, and an elderly man coming towards me. As I started to move on to the grass to give the elderly woman lots of space as I passed, the elderly man started also moving onto the grass, and started pointing his cane at me.

"Are you a troublemaker?", he asked.

I moved further onto the grass, hoping to pass. He followed me, stabbing at the air with his cane.

"I said, are you a troublemaker?"

"Uhm...... no." I stopped, to avoid hitting him.

"Well, you must be - you're riding a bicycle on the sidewalk."

*cane shake*

"That's against the law!"

*cane shake*

" If anything happens you're liable!"

"Uhm... thanks for letting me know." I said, as I quickly scooted around him.

I kept riding on the sidewalk, all the way home.