Debian
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A minor incident today just made me wonder about the thought processes of some people.
I was on the homeward leg of a quick XC / road ride this morning on a gravel road (RB), fairly steep uphill in my direction and about a car's width.
I can see a pedestrian further up the hill walking down towards me, I'm on my left hand side and so is the pedestrian, we're about 200 yds apart. No problem so far.
Then I see a cyclist, a lady as it happens, cycling downhill a bit further up the hill. She's also on my left hand side (her right) and coming down at a reasonably fast pace.
Now then, this lady overtakes the pedestrian and then moves back over to her right hand side which puts her on a collision course with me. She's still about 50 yards ahead of me and I think, "odd but she'll obviously move over to the correct side of the road in a sec". She doesn't! She continues on a head on course with me, forces me to jink across to my right at the last second, she passes me on my left and mouths abuse at me as she goes past!
. I didn't actually catch all that she said but it was fairly clear that she thought I should have given way to her?
WTF?
She was on the wrong side of the road and expected me to get out of her way. And this is after she's moved over to her correct side to pass the ped and she then cuts back to the wrong side. I was fully expecting her to pass me on my right as per normal.
As I said at the beginning I do wonder about people sometimes!
I was on the homeward leg of a quick XC / road ride this morning on a gravel road (RB), fairly steep uphill in my direction and about a car's width.
I can see a pedestrian further up the hill walking down towards me, I'm on my left hand side and so is the pedestrian, we're about 200 yds apart. No problem so far.
Then I see a cyclist, a lady as it happens, cycling downhill a bit further up the hill. She's also on my left hand side (her right) and coming down at a reasonably fast pace.
Now then, this lady overtakes the pedestrian and then moves back over to her right hand side which puts her on a collision course with me. She's still about 50 yards ahead of me and I think, "odd but she'll obviously move over to the correct side of the road in a sec". She doesn't! She continues on a head on course with me, forces me to jink across to my right at the last second, she passes me on my left and mouths abuse at me as she goes past!
. I didn't actually catch all that she said but it was fairly clear that she thought I should have given way to her?WTF?
She was on the wrong side of the road and expected me to get out of her way. And this is after she's moved over to her correct side to pass the ped and she then cuts back to the wrong side. I was fully expecting her to pass me on my right as per normal.As I said at the beginning I do wonder about people sometimes!
