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edscoble
Rather fun little altercation with the driver of a little red hatchback coming up towards Oval on my way home tonight at about 7:20pm.
Had taken a position a little way out from the blue paint, as usual, which is part of a bus lane. Hadn't realised that it ceased to be a bus lane at 7pm.
Gentleman in the red hatchback takes great exception to my positioning, and responds by moving very closely alongside me in quite an aggressive fashion.
I yell into his open window that it's a bus lane (incorrect) and to stop trying to force me off the road (correct).
We get to a set of red lights where we decide to continue the debate. I admit I was wrong about the bus lane, but maintain his driving was dangerous. He says he's a bus driver by trade!
At this point two coppers who happened to be passing come over to investigate. They very kindly check I'm OK and send me on my merry way - and I look over my shoulder to see him getting what seems like a very stern talking too with his arms folded over his chest like a chastised child.
9/10