Today's impatient numpty.

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So, I turn out of a side street into Colliergate, on the way in this morning. Colliergate is a short narrow shopping street, and has plenty of vans unloading at that time of morning. I have to wait for one to pass before I can turn into Colliergate, and then sit behind it as it inches forward at about 7mph between parked vehicles. The car behind me is revving a bit. After about 30 yards, the van pulls into a parked bay, and I go round it, and get into the right hand lane (it's a one way street), in order to go straight ahead down Fossgate. I hold the middle of the lane, just out of habit. More revving behind. I wait for three cars to pass from the right, and a cyclist from the left, and then I cross to Fossgate. Matey behind follows, and revs past me at the first opportunity, giving me a scowling look as he does.

I expect I was in his way. Of course, if I'd not been there, he'd simply have been up the arse of a slow large van. Perhaps he wouldn't have had to wait for that traffic to cross the junction eh, he'd have just barged across.

Funny though, he had to slow down to get through a pinchpoint further down anyway. I so nearly caught him up, probably better I didn't.

Really, what is wrong with some people?

 

[TheDoctor]

They're in a big successful car, and you don't pay road tax.

Either that, or they're just utter feckwits!!

 

[potsy]

They're in a big successful car, and you don't pay road tax.

Either that, or they're just utter feckwits!!

Option 2 I believe

 

[Arch]

They're in a big successful car

or an old black Vauxhall saloon with a ladder on the roof rack...

 

[downfader]

or an old black Vauxhall saloon with a ladder on the roof rack...

Ahh the old window cleaning scam on the elderly.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Ahh the old window cleaning scam on the elderly.

It was probably a fireman on strike.

 

[Bigsharn]

...The car behind me is revving a bit.

Next time drop down onto your second ring of gears, I do

Quite a lot of the time I find that cars can't get past the vans parked down there anyway so I go coasting up their outside grinning like a Cheshire cat, which *really* annoys them

 

[ufkacbln]

or an old black Vauxhall saloon with a ladder on the roof rack...

Your fault - you annoyed him by riding a trike worth more than his car!

 

[ufkacbln]

I used to commute to Haslar across a traffic light controlled bridge and as cyclist were often still coming up the other side use the Primary to prevent stupid overtakes.

One day had a halfwit tooting and yelling , so stopped, slowly checked panniers and as there wasnothing wrong shrugged shoulders and carried on.

Unfortunately this meant that the lights had cajenged and there were now 6 vehicles coming up the brow of the bridge and face to face with the halfwit who had to reverse back down the bridge whilst I simply carried on.

Sorted!