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I find it real easy to stay calm after someone his deliberately driven 2000kg of heavy machinery straight at me
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This is ABSOLUTELY how I feel. The cyclist guy's obviously shaken up and frightened by the nutty driving, it shows in his anger and wobbly voice. The cafe owner twonk was SO quick to start going nuts at the rider it makes you wonder if he does this sort of thing a lot.
I had something similar happen to me in Nunhead the other day, it ended with a chase where I manged to find a traffic filter to pass through and leave the driver behind. I was totally freaked out and had adrenaline pumping like crazy. All started because I used my horn to hint that the driver was passing me too close. The guy immediately went into one.
Skülly
To be fair to the cyclist if I had been passed that closely I would have been pissed off too. However he does escalate the situation almost immediately with a tirade of abuse, which seems to last forever. The cyclist should have stayed calm and let the angry shouty gimp blaze away until he realized he looked like an utter tool.