KneesUp
Guru
Fun chat with a driver this morning.
Coming up to a set of lights, there was ample room on the left to filter to the front, where there is a large advanced stop line box - whatever they're called. As I got alongside the car at the front of the queue - which had been stationary - it rolled forward into the red box, meaning I had nowhere to go, really.
So I tapped on his window, and he wound it down. In my normal voice just said "The red bit of the road with the huge bicycle on it is so cyclists can go there and be seen by drivers, not for you to edge forward into" He looked old enough to have passed his test before such things existed, so I hoped it might educate him - he didn't say much, and then the lights changed.
At the next set of lights there was no room up the inside of him so I waited behind him. He got out of his car to come and talk to me. "Here we go" I thought - I've never been in a fight in my life but I had 20 years, a few inches in height and about 20kg of bike and panniers on him so I wasn't unduly bothered. He walked over to me, weighed up his options and said "You should be wearing a helmet!" "There is no legal obligation for me to do so" I replied. "Yes there is" he said, and got back in his car.
As road rage goes it wasn't exactly Ronnie Pickering.
Coming up to a set of lights, there was ample room on the left to filter to the front, where there is a large advanced stop line box - whatever they're called. As I got alongside the car at the front of the queue - which had been stationary - it rolled forward into the red box, meaning I had nowhere to go, really.
So I tapped on his window, and he wound it down. In my normal voice just said "The red bit of the road with the huge bicycle on it is so cyclists can go there and be seen by drivers, not for you to edge forward into" He looked old enough to have passed his test before such things existed, so I hoped it might educate him - he didn't say much, and then the lights changed.
At the next set of lights there was no room up the inside of him so I waited behind him. He got out of his car to come and talk to me. "Here we go" I thought - I've never been in a fight in my life but I had 20 years, a few inches in height and about 20kg of bike and panniers on him so I wasn't unduly bothered. He walked over to me, weighed up his options and said "You should be wearing a helmet!" "There is no legal obligation for me to do so" I replied. "Yes there is" he said, and got back in his car.
As road rage goes it wasn't exactly Ronnie Pickering.
here's hoping it's behind me tonight! tgif!
