Stupid driver vent - and result of sorts.

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Riding along on the enormous bike (which features a pair of enormous bright orange panniers so I really couldn't be any less invisible) when I'm overtaken by a blue Vauxhall Vectra (Cavalier - you can change the name but you can't change their attitude). She's indicating left as she passes me and, surprise surprise, begins a turn which would have had her pulling into a car park - a bit too close for comfort but she would have cleared me. But rather than proceed she stops at an angle in the road, mid manouvre, leaving a foot between her car and the kerb. So I pull to a halt. And then she turns around and looks at me.

WTF?

A moment passes. . . . . 'What are you doing?' I shout. And she starts mouthing something which I cannot hear. After a bit more shouting from me, mainly sweary words telling her to get out of my way she gets out of the car and tells me that I shouldn't have been riding up the inside of her car....

OMG!

At which point some random woman who has until this point been sitting in a car on the other side of the road wanders up and waves her Police ID around. She takes the woman aside and her colleague is left with me. Turns out she's a cyclist, advises me that she'll have a stiff word with the woman and sends me on my way with a cheery wave.

LOL.
 

col

Legendary Member
Dont you just love it when that happens.
 

400bhp

Guru
You should hve hung around (pretend to recalibrate your gears or something) to hear what was said.
 

Wildduck

Well-Known Member
Location
Southampton
:smile:
 

Arjimlad

Tights of Cydonia
Location
South Glos
Oh happy day !
Well worth suffering a left hook to have such an experience.
Why are stupid people allowed to drive something as dangerous as a car ?
 

nilling

Über Member
Location
Preston, UK
Same thing happened to me and despite me repeatedly shouting "go on!" she just stayed where she was. In the end the safest thing for me to do was to cycle around her. The irony was her car had a bike roofrack fitted WTF!! ;)
 
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