Was this bus driver bad?

[col]

Me too.Gone

 

[nethalus]

Nethalus,

It isn't personal. Cab just goes off on these little tirades every once in a while. It's not just you.

As for the cyclist in front of you..... that's outrageous. Don't you realise that by being in the same country as him you contributed to this incident. Shame on you....


(oops I added more to the thread! But I was replying to nethalus honest!!)

LOL!!

 

[tdr1nka]

Nethalus, thank you for your enduring sense of humour throughout these postings.

I'm off too, this thread is dead.

T x

 

[goo_mason]

I can't believe I just sat and read this whole thread, but in the end is was noticeable for Nethalus retaining a good sense of humour, no matter how much Cab went round and round with several embellishments along the way.

It reminded me of one of simoncc's anti-Top Gear / BBC epic rants.

My immediate opinion was "So what ?". Nethalus is only human, works in a stressful job, and got a fright when the cyclist appeared from nowhere after she'd checked and started moving. She admitted the fingers were a bit naughty, and that's that. The thread should have ended there.

And now I'm out of here like everyone else. I deserve a cup of tea as a reward for my stamina and endurance

 

[domd1979]

and a large slice of cake if you've just read all 30 pages in one go!!!!

I deserve a cup of tea as a reward for my stamina and endurance

 

[gambatte]

I'm out of here as well.

Pity, 3 more posts would have got it to 300.

how about 2 more posts, then let Cab have the last word?

 

[domtyler]

I'm out of here as well.

Pity, 3 more posts would have got it to 300.

how about 2 more posts, then let Cab have the last word?

???

I think you'll find it is only two more that are needed here.

 

[Cab]

I won't do that, cab often does have valid points to make.

Cab I cannot be bothered replying any more. Not that I couldn't refute what you are saying, believe me I could, but there is just no point. You don't listen. You make a good act of listening but you don't. You have made your mind up: cyclist good, bus driver bad. You would continue to justify this until you went blue in the face. So there is no point arguing.

Thats totally, completely untrue. I've taken your statements on board and responded to them, I've dug out supporting statements from the highway code that support what I'm saying and refute what you've said. Thats how you hold a debate, you listen and you respond.

I'm genuinely not seeing any set of circumstances in which the bus driver was not in error. You clearly have some other insight here, as you're not stupid. But, for whatever reason, you haven't seen good to share that insight.

I'd tell you to chill, but you would tell me you were. Maybe you are just addicted to writing long posts. Who knows?

I'm out of this one for good now. Anyone else coming?

*shrug*

You seem to be assuming that I'm wound up here. I'm not. It would rather appear that several other peple are though. Thats their problem.

 

[Cab]

Cab is just adding his own made up things really and then saying that I did this and I did that. He wasn't even there and is making assumptions like I pulled into the cyclist space, which I didn't as they were not there when I started rolling.

You pulled out and continued to accelerate into space that the cyclist was about to enter and then was actually in. The highway code specifically states that when someone is overtaking you, you don't accelerate. You accelerated as the cyclist was going past you on the outside (you've said precisely that). There is no other conclusion to draw than that, for some reason, you don't believe that the highway code applies here.

Mind you he won't take a blind bit of notice of anything I say and will just carry on making up things and ranting about it. It's obvious he don't like me and and wants to make it sound like I'm a nasty horrible bus driver. Oh well that's his opinion and there's nowt I can do to change it.

Actually, no, I don't like you. Not for this incident, I don't like you for the company you keep. But thats irrelevent here; the evidence we have from your statements about the event show that you made an initial mistake (you didn't see the cyclist and pulled out as he was about to go past you; there was, therefore, no gap), and rather than just accepting that error you then made a rude gesture to the polite cyclist, and then out-accelerated the cyclist who was now, because of your mistake, overtaking you rather than going round a stationary bus.

But mistakes happen. All of the time. We all make mistakes. You clearly don't accept that this applies to you though; you've admitted that your rude gesture was wrong, but you can't see that your actual driving was at fault. Sadly, thats a very common response from motorists.

Sadder still is the fact that you've completely failed to engage in any discussion about what happened; you've made a set of (at times conflicting) statements, then got all shirty when questioned, and when it was put to you that your behaviour was bad. You're a bad example to all other road users.

 

[Cab]

Nethalus,

It isn't personal. Cab just goes off on these little tirades every once in a while. It's not just you.

Frankly, you should know better than that. This is no tirade, its no rant, its a reasoned stance based on what Nethalus has said.

Basically, she's in the wrong, she knows that she made several mistakes, and she wanted to achieve some kind of absolution from a bunch of cyclists for having endangered a cyclist on the road.

To be honest, I think its irresponsible for other cyclists here to giver her that.

 

[domtyler]

Frankly, you should know better than that. This is no tirade, its no rant, its a reasoned stance based on what Nethalus has said.

Basically, she's in the wrong, she knows that she made several mistakes, and she wanted to achieve some kind of absolution from a bunch of cyclists for having endangered a cyclist on the road.

To be honest, I think its irresponsible for other cyclists here to giver her that.

Somebody up his dose of Lithium for gawds sake.

 

[Cab]

Somebody up his dose of Lithium for gawds sake.

Get over yourself; if you've nothing on subject to say why say anything?

 

[domtyler]

Get over yourself; if you've nothing on subject to say why say anything?

I already said my bit, everything that needed to be said, i.e. very little. I am just baffled as to why you have seen the need to go on about such a trivial matter for over three hundred posts. Please just explain to me what you or anyone else has gained by this?

 

[Cab]

I already said my bit, everything that needed to be said, i.e. very little. I am just baffled as to why you have seen the need to go on about such a trivial matter for over three hundred posts. Please just explain to me what you or anyone else has gained by this?

What does anyone ever gain out of any kind of discussion or debate? Its an exploration of an issue, a topic, and the areas around it. Whether any individual discussion is of value, I dunno. I do know that the result is quite clear, and I've certainly learned a little about how some people here interpret (or, rather, fail to think about) whats said.

 

[Terminator]

Get over yourself; if you've nothing on subject to say why say anything?

Marvelous.