So I'm flying down Morningside and a woman rolls right through her stop sign and cuts me off, despite making eye contact with me. I chose to mutter some stuff and not flip her off or yell. But then as I approach the intersection of Norwood and Edgefield, the same lady suddenly pulls her car to the right of the road just as I approached, despite waiting to make a left. I quickly decided to take to the grass instead of making an abrupt stop. But that meant going between two of those big stone pillars that are about 3 feet apart. Everything seemed like it would be fine, until I noticed a nice old lady and her dog approaching the pillars from the opposite direction. I slammed on my brakes, lost all traction, and slammed into one of the pillars with the left side of my handlebar, stopping me instantly. Thankfully I wasn't going to fast, so I was fine. But my brake lever is all dinged up and riding home those last few miles with my stem canted to the left was a little unnerving. All in all, it could have been much worse, but if you see a woman with big poofy hair driving a dark blue '04-08 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP, feel free to flip her off. But be careful, apparently she's got it out for cyclists.