This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Smashed it in today, great commute. Left an hour earlier so first commute in proper rush hour for a while. It was great fun: two lines of traffic in both directions stationary and me blasting past them all right down the middle.

Apart from that being suffering from a clusterfuck of bad overtaking, from the bone-headed to the bone-breaking variety, although I did escape unharmed. A trifecta of them all involved me moving from the left across the lane to the right while approaching either a roundabout or traffic light, whereupon despite my position and the coming junction I was overtaken before the driver cutting right back over to the left before I've even completed my manoeuvre. Yesterday I was in the left hand lane, there are three lanes appraoching the big roundabout at the bottom of Gloucester Road in Brissle, I'm moving to the right, about to move into the middle lane when a bus suddenly appears on my shoulder and goes around me before coming back into the lane I was trying to move out of. I duely passed him because he had to stop immediately as the lights were red so I gave a window a satisfying whack, which he really didn't like. Worst of all I got overtaken by a learner on a lesson yesterday, I'm in the right hand side of a right hand lane, the road is divided by chevrons not just a broken white line, there are lorries parked up outside a builder's merchant on the otherside of the road the learner overtook me, going right around me, over the chevrons, into the other lane, then all the way back to the left to stop in front of the red light. Very disappointing the instructor thought that was an acceptable manoeuvre felt like knocking on the window and having a word.