Awesome encounter with a zombie today to round off the year. What’s been yours?

[Jon George]

1pm today - no rain, but pretty bleak. I'm on my #3 (a hybrid, now sprayed washing-machine white), wearing a white coat, and have good front lights for town and an eye-watering new rear (angled down). Emerging from my place of part-time work, I approach a T-junction with lanes (arrowed) for left and right turns. A car is in the left lane, indicator on, edging forward. I arrive, take up primary in the right, and must be in line-of-sight, because when I glance directly at her as I check for traffic on my left, we make eye contact.
It's clear! I move off.
And so does the car ... except it also turns right!
She has the look of a bewildered rabbit as I bellow 'Oi!' while grabbing handfuls of brake and now we are definitely making eye-contact. She retains the look of someone who doesn't realise what they've done and drives away, having yet another go at nearly hitting me as she does so.
Oh, and where is my part-time work based? Ipswich General Hospital, of course. (I'm hopefully being generous here by imagining she may have just received some bad news, but,wow, that was close and thoughtless.)
So, I'm laying down the gauntlet, folks - beat that for this year's best zombie action where no injury occurred ...

 

[Banjo]

I think she needs to be taken away by the men in white coats

 

[mattobrien]

Not cycling, but I had a car charge me while I was on a zebra crossing last week, she passed on the inside,nearer the curb than us as we had passed that point while crossing. I have her a little tap on the roof as a matter of principle and she stopped a bit further up to shout what did we think we were doing. Another car from the opposite direction, which has stopped for the crossing, did point out that we were on a zebra crossing and that perhaps priority lay with us.

She was South African, the only relevance I have to this could be that perhaps rules are different over there

 

[400bhp]

1pm today - no rain, but pretty bleak. I'm on my #3 (a hybrid, now sprayed washing-machine white), wearing a white coat, and have good front lights for town and an eye-watering new rear (angled down). Emerging from my place of part-time work, I approach a T-junction with lanes (arrowed) for left and right turns. A car is in the left lane, indicator on, edging forward. I arrive, take up primary in the right, and must be in line-of-sight, because when I glance directly at her as I check for traffic on my left, we make eye contact.
It's clear! I move off.
And so does the car ... except it also turns right!
She has the look of a bewildered rabbit as I bellow 'Oi!' while grabbing handfuls of brake and now we are definitely making eye-contact. She retains the look of someone who doesn't realise what they've done and drives away, having yet another go at nearly hitting me as she does so.
Oh, and where is my part-time work based? Ipswich General Hospital, of course. (I'm hopefully being generous here by imagining she may have just received some bad news, but,wow, that was close and thoughtless.)
So, I'm laying down the gauntlet, folks - beat that for this year's best zombie action where no injury occurred ...

You assumed you did but you didn't.

The eye contact thing is a real misnomer.

 

[young Ed]

whilst walking dog earlier this year (no bikes sorry) just my bro and my mum some bloke in a landy wizzed past much much too fast on a little country lane and my mum very slightly shook here head so he went up the lane and turned round going back towards them even faster and stopped to shout and almost knock my mum out!
Cheers Ed

 

[Jon George]

You assumed you did but you didn't.

The eye contact thing is a real misnomer.

When someone alters the angle of their head from looking down the road, turns in my direction, and raises their eyes to stare directly at me, then my money is on eye-contact - but I'll accept that's not a bet I'm ever prepared to make with my life, that's why I kept a healthily wariness that saved me. What I suspect happened is that she suffered momentary brain-fade, remembered she had to be somewhere else, and turned into me, forgetting I was there.

 

[jdtate101]

The time I was nearly taken out by a old biddy turning left cutting across me by coming round me (I was in primary as it's a well known spot for left hooks). After recovering from the shock I caught up with her at the next lights and gently knocked on her window to ask her nicely not to do that again. She just stared ahead fixated on the car in front like a rabbit stuck in the headlights. I think she realised what she had done but wasn't going to acknowledge my presence in case I wanted to pick a fight. It was all quite surreal, especially when her passenger rolled down the window to apologize, she still wouldn't look at me. Bizzare.

 

[400bhp]

When someone alters the angle of their head from looking down the road, turns in my direction, and raises their eyes to stare directly at me, then my money is on eye-contact - but I'll accept that's not a bet I'm ever prepared to make with my life, that's why I kept a healthily wariness that saved me. What I suspect happened is that she suffered momentary brain-fade, remembered she had to be somewhere else, and turned into me, forgetting I was there.

Sorry but its an incorrect assumption to make. Not least because its bl00dy hard to get that level of detail when looking at a driver behind glass and you approaching at speed.

I am not aiming to pick holes here, but I disagree that eye contact gives any indication of driver intention. I see it a lot banded about here, not dissimilar to "I was wearing hi viz with 3 front lights and they still didnt see me". A driver may look but doesnt see, perhaps because they are looking for the norm on the road, ie other vehicles.

 

[Jon George]

Sorry but its an incorrect assumption to make.

Let's agree to disagree about this particular instance - life's too short (and filled with people doing unexpected things!) .

 

[Jon George]

It was all quite surreal, especially when her passenger rolled down the window to apologize, she still wouldn't look at me. Bizzare.

Priceless!

 

[ufkacbln]

This year's experience.....

Standing on the service platform of a Nuclear Reactor and looking down into the pool to the reactor core itself, glowing a bright blue due to the cherenkov radiation