Tootling along the road this morning, good pace but not tearing along towards a nasty bit of road where there is a crossroads laid out for traffic calming. Basically a speed hump, and then a raised crossroads where the road narrows on all four approaches on both sides, and of course its about 20 feet past the first speed hump.
Bloke in car comes up to try to overtake, pulls level, realises that theres a car on the other side of the road (parked in a fairly stupid place), has nowhere to go, hits his brakes just before I do.
So, down all down the road after the crossroads he's stuck behind me, although I say 'stuck' in truth he wasn't even that close to me, due to the barrage of speed humps all down that road.
At the end of that road theres a blind corner right followed by a blind corner left and yes, you guessed it, in the run up to the right turn he's revving, and trying to overtake around me in primary position going around a blind left corner. So I yelled a warning at him while taking evasive action (that after all is one of the reasons to be in primary, gives you space), he backed off, then went as hard as he could to get to the red light at the end of the road (30 yards or so) before I could.
I did yell one thing at him after pulling up alongside. "You do know that you're a f***ing idiot, don't you?".
He said nothing in return. Tried not to even look at me. I know, its probably a mistake to wind him up like that. In my defense, he went straight on (same way I did) and I waited to make sure te bugger had gone before I went off. He turned left further on, neither his indicator nor one of his brake lights seemed to work.
Bloke in car comes up to try to overtake, pulls level, realises that theres a car on the other side of the road (parked in a fairly stupid place), has nowhere to go, hits his brakes just before I do.
So, down all down the road after the crossroads he's stuck behind me, although I say 'stuck' in truth he wasn't even that close to me, due to the barrage of speed humps all down that road.
At the end of that road theres a blind corner right followed by a blind corner left and yes, you guessed it, in the run up to the right turn he's revving, and trying to overtake around me in primary position going around a blind left corner. So I yelled a warning at him while taking evasive action (that after all is one of the reasons to be in primary, gives you space), he backed off, then went as hard as he could to get to the red light at the end of the road (30 yards or so) before I could.
I did yell one thing at him after pulling up alongside. "You do know that you're a f***ing idiot, don't you?".
He said nothing in return. Tried not to even look at me. I know, its probably a mistake to wind him up like that. In my defense, he went straight on (same way I did) and I waited to make sure te bugger had gone before I went off. He turned left further on, neither his indicator nor one of his brake lights seemed to work.