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user16171
Scilly.Suffolk
Me approaching a parked car, move to go around it, as I do a lorry overtakes us both before, still alongside swings slightly towards me and stops. Assuming he's turning right I go ahead and throw my arm at him in disgust. He's not turning right, he was giving way to a bus coming the other way, so shortly he overtakes me again so I give him the full dirty over-the-shoulder. Then there's a red light. Deciding discretion is the greater part of valour I elect to stay behind him (given that he has already erratically overtaken me) rather that the filter-and-plonk-yourself-infront approach.
Anyway he gets out of the cab to remonstrate with me, calling me a moron and saying he was waiting for a bus I couldn't see. I pointed out the very simple fact that if he had to give way to a bus, why is he overtaking a cyclist going around a parked car. Apparently expressing a logical, measured suggestion that would enure mine and other vulnerable road user's safety is actually insulting, it quickly devolved into a swearing match, during which the lights changed. In a comedy moment I shall treasure, he mistook my pulling away and out to go around the stationary lorry as a move to hit him, at which point he literally cowered and leaned back, shielding his face with his arms. I simply rode away, as did the cars behind him. The lights changed again before he was even able to get into his cab.
The piss-drinking cock-monkey