Good sir, please tell me your secret.
Being on the receiving end of worse driving that Matthew T's, how did you refrain from being a cock, getting into an altercation with the driver and then making them chase you down? Are you some sort of wizard Benb?
I think that MattT probably has enough advice now. I rarely confront motorists these days, and only if they are in the process of causing me physical danger (when a shout normally suffices). But I understand the frustration with poor driving though - one does get to a zen like acceptance of anything but the worst. Stuff like cutting corners isn't the end of the world - unless someone is coming up to turn right when it might be the end of the world for someone. I get this more in a car than on my cycle so I think it is more laziness and poor habits than anything else - which is what a lot of poor driving amounts to.
But I have to say that MattT hardly
made the driver in this instance stop the car to exchange verbals, then turn the car around and chase him down to block his path and then give it the "Goodfellas spiel". In my mind the cutting the corner is much less worrying that the driver's reaction afterwards. I just don't get this kind of behaviour. A small incident warrants this as opposed to the driver muttering under his breath and continuing with his life? I do kind of worry for people who need to do this, especially a man who looks fairly mature offering up a fight to a kid. One would hope life experience would have enabled some maturity in this situation, but clearly not.
What does the driver get out of this in the end? He told off a teenager and in the process has managed to get himself filmed and this sent to the police. If what is being said about insurance on this car is true, the driver may have managed to get the attention of the police whilst not lawfully driving, which isn't the cleverest thing to do in the world if they don't want a big fine and points or a ban. Even with insurance and the correct documents who needs the hassle of police visits and deliberations on prosecution simply because someone said something they didn't like? And as I mentioned previously the driver should consider that they don't know who they are dealing with on the cycle - there are nutters on cycles as well as in cars. All for a comment that the driver didn't like? Seems crazy to me and it does worry me slightly that people who are this highly strung are driving around.
