Had a moment today on the way home from work, i've not had one for a while so I suppose I was due one and now I'll have a whole load.
I was coming up to a roundabout (bit of afunny one as it is essentially square in shape which actually makes it fairly easy to negotiate). On the approach a BMW driver had one of those 'i must save 3 seconds by overtaking the cyclist at any cost' moments so he flew past. I retook him when we had to stop at a pelican crossing. So I went into the roundabout junction ahead of him.
At the junction I checked right and a car was indicating to turn so I started to move...but they'd got the turn wrong and carried round in front of me, I was forced to do a bit of a quick stop/track stand but I'd anticipated it happening. The thanks I got (not that I was expecting any) was for the fat girl in the passenger seat, fag in one hand and pasty in the other, to flick the v's at me as if I'd done something wrong. The road was now clear so I set off, bemused by what had just happened. At which point...
...the BMW driver (remember him) drove alongside me (on the inside forcing me into the right hand lane) and shouted at me
'see that red stuff, that's for people like you'
As mentioned in threads previously, witticisms and clever ripostes always fail to come to mind on such occassions. Still I let him through - we were taking the same turn and I amused myself with the fact that for all his idiocy he was straight into a traffic jam about a mile and a half long. Which I promptly overtook.
Sometimes I really do think a cull of these idiots is needed. Give them a ton of metal and the loose any brain cells they might previously have been in possession of.
Thank you for allowing me to get that off my chest.
I was coming up to a roundabout (bit of afunny one as it is essentially square in shape which actually makes it fairly easy to negotiate). On the approach a BMW driver had one of those 'i must save 3 seconds by overtaking the cyclist at any cost' moments so he flew past. I retook him when we had to stop at a pelican crossing. So I went into the roundabout junction ahead of him.
At the junction I checked right and a car was indicating to turn so I started to move...but they'd got the turn wrong and carried round in front of me, I was forced to do a bit of a quick stop/track stand but I'd anticipated it happening. The thanks I got (not that I was expecting any) was for the fat girl in the passenger seat, fag in one hand and pasty in the other, to flick the v's at me as if I'd done something wrong. The road was now clear so I set off, bemused by what had just happened. At which point...
...the BMW driver (remember him) drove alongside me (on the inside forcing me into the right hand lane) and shouted at me
'see that red stuff, that's for people like you'
As mentioned in threads previously, witticisms and clever ripostes always fail to come to mind on such occassions. Still I let him through - we were taking the same turn and I amused myself with the fact that for all his idiocy he was straight into a traffic jam about a mile and a half long. Which I promptly overtook.
Sometimes I really do think a cull of these idiots is needed. Give them a ton of metal and the loose any brain cells they might previously have been in possession of.
Thank you for allowing me to get that off my chest.
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