how would you react?

[tommaguzzi]

Today I am riding back home from visiting my old mum i am on my pub bike at 11.30 in the morning, visibility is perfect
I am wearing normal clothes.
Black sports jacket ( unzipped)
Blue tee shirt
Black jeans.
I am riding in the suburbs the roads are almost empty but i slow for a junction a man abuses me on a passive aggressive manner for not wearing hi_viz.!
I am used to the no plastic hat thing but no hi viz in broad daylight?

I know what I did what would you do.

Bloke was a 40 year old hippy with ruck sack sat on a church wall when every one else was working

 

[classic33]

I have, in very simple english, told them it's not a legal requirement, and I'll wear what I want.

 

[Dave 123]

I’d have got off my bike, gone up to him and licked his face.

That would freak him out.

 

[mgs315]

Probably just ignore him. Not worth the oxygen. Some people just can’t help but moan about something.

 

[gbb]

I usually aim to go for something along the lines of....
Just as well your opinion counts for nothing mate.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Ignore.
Like I did with the Policeman that said the same to me, on a bright sunny day, on a segregated path.
I was wearing a bright red tee, he wanted to see a hi-viz something.
I just gave him the look

 

[Drago]

I'd tell him to mind his own foxtroting business, and carried on my merry way.

 

[iandg]

Ignore

 

[iandg]

12 months ago my mental state would have told me to argue.

 

[NorthernDave]

No hi-viz, but yet he still saw you?

I'd have told him to go away, but not necessarily using those words.

 

[Moodyman]

A sarcastic thanks and nothing more. Life is too short to allow imbeciles to spoil it.

 

[slowmotion]

Just say " You're absolutely right. I hate cyclists too."

 

[ColinJ]

I'd have suggested that he is either smoking too much weed, or not enough!

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Look around and say 'Where did that voice come from? Must be someone not wearing hi viz!'.

Or ask him if he should be wearing a helmet say up on that wall.

 

[ozboz]

Reminded him about Humpty Dumpty ,