Coffee?

[Arch]

Had a classic today. Heading out on the second round of the day, on the Maximus, got to the top of the road, and needed to turn right - I always tend to use the road that happens to have a ped refuge near the top, and a lane for traffic too turn right off the main road, because it gives me a chance to turn out in two chunks - the Maximus, weighing 77kg, doesn't have great acceleration in my hands (or feet?), so I'm not happy to nip out into small gaps.

Anyway, I get across to the middle bit of white hatching next to the ped refuge, and wait for a gap in the traffic from the left. The woman driving behind me, also wanting to turn right, decides she can't bothered to wait, goes round me on the left and pulls out in front of an oncoming car and away.

All the while, holding in her right hand, a china mug of coffee.

 

[shippers]

Sounds about right. You'd not get that sort of behaviour from a tea drinker.

 

[Davidc]

I hope it wasn't decaffeinated - she evidently needs something to wake her up fast.

 

[hackbike 666]

It's amazing what levels of dumbness people will stoop to.

 

[Crackle]

In a China mug, that's just daft, she'll spill it. She needs one of those Stanley mugs with the top on, they don't spill, even when negotiating recumbents.

 

[Arch]

In a China mug, that's just daft, she'll spill it. She needs one of those Stanley mugs with the top on, they don't spill, even when negotiating recumbents.

'tis an upright trike, the Maximus...

Anyway, if I'd been on a lighter, narrower mount (can't filter on a Maximus), and I could have caught her up, I think I might have been tempted to have a word. Or rock the car until she split it...

Coffee in a takeout cup with a lid, ok, maybe, not ideal, but ok. But a china mug? She will have been not only driving one handed, but concentrating mainly on not spilling it...

Hopefully she'll pull that stunt on a motorway one day, and end up buried in a central reservation.

 

[hackbike 666]

Trouble is when the local idiot cocks it up they usually succeed in wiping some innocent person out and getting away scot free.

 

[Arch]

it's just ocured tome, back last summer I saw a chap lefthooked (and almost knocked off, but he recovered it) by a car turning off the main road at the same corner, small dark coloured car, driven by a youngish woman... Of course there's no way I can be sure it's the same woman, but....

I better start remembering registrations....