Steve Jobs vs Me on my bicycle

Why I chose this photo will become apparent in a moment.

This is fairly well known, but at the Infinite Loop campus, Steve Jobs used to park his car in a small lot right next to the Infinite Loop 1, often in a handicapped spot.

One day I was riding my bike on Infinite Loop (the road), approaching the entrance to said parking lot. I was riding at a pretty good clip. Ahead of me on the right, a Mercedes whipped around the corner in the right turn lane and stuck its nose too far into the road for my comfort.

Michelle Groskopf, WIRED, 2018

I squeezed both my brake levers as I was not very far away. The back wheel of my bike lifted off the ground a little. When I came to a stop, I was ready to scowl at the driver until I saw it was Steve.

He looked at me, ducked his head down a little, and stuck his hand up in an apologetic way, similar to the photo at the beginning of this article.

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