still on my alternate bike, the weekend passed in a blur and I never found the time (that in itself could be a whole other topic) to look at my normal commuter bike.
it was a Baker day today locally, in old money iykyk, so traffic still not full on normal school run type levels, but still enough crazy so and so's out there who all mostly seemed to be an insane rush to be somewhere else.
but numpty of the day award had to go to this one driver on the way home, Im approaching a junction I want to turn left at, but I can see a parent with her small kid on the pavement approaching the same junction at the same time who wont have heard me coming, or seen me and I wasnt about to chop in front of them as the kid could have easily scooted out in front of me thinking it was clear. So I stopped as per the Highway code rule H2 on the main road angled to turn in, and they thanked me.
there I am thinking good deed done for the day, karma is good, but of course theres now a car behind me, and the driver is leaning on the horn for me to get out of their way, erm there are people crossing the road what part of that is causing a problem.
the pedestrians get clear so I make my turn, and of course the driver follows me, who knows whether they actually intended to turn or not as well, but when I pulled off the road to let them through because Ive really had my fill of people following me like that over the years, of course they find the time to then pull alongside and we have the 2min argument about the highway code and their attitude was every bit as nonsensical as youd imagine trying to defend the indefensible of you cant stop on the road like that, as I had to use my brakes, yes that really was the thrust of his complaint. and no of course if Id been in a car doing the same thing, he'd not have said a peep would he.
love cycling just maybe not today
