Blackandblue said:I don't accept that I was antagonistic when I approached the bus driver. I was calm and polite and genuinely interested to know why he felt it appropriate to pass so closely. His demeanour as I approached his cabin made it plain to me that his actions were deliberate.
I do accept though that the windscreen wiper was childish and inappropriate. I was however a little more anguished by this time seeing as how he'd inched his bus forward over my bike (traffic was stationary during the entire time we had our "exchange" (though you can't really call it an exchange as he didn't want to engage properly with me).
I will chalk this one up to experience. I wouldn't normally bother making an issue out of these things but I guess it being a bus on Blackfriars Bridge really got to me.
It also just really depresses me that fellow humans can be that ignorant, stupid and careless with other people's lives.
sheddy said:OT but I sometimes get hooted when passing another bike.
I guess I should signal. What do you do ?
fossyant said:Take a chill pill - go and get a cuppa, breath out, breath in.......
Blackandblue said:Thanks, Cab. All noted. I hope I can muster up the sense and reason that you demonstrate in your posts the next time I find myself in a similar situation.
However, as Bentmikey says, it's not always as easy as it seems.
On the plus side, I have almost put the episode behind me and am feeling much happier with the world.