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pifko
I love it when drivers show solidarity with one another despite either not seeing wtf happened or not caring that the driver was at fault. All levels of cuntage this morning. Cycling up a bus/cycle lane quite happily when suddenly a picasso type car just swerves straight across my path, no signalling, nothing, forcing me not only to slow but to stop as he pulls over to work out where the fuck he is supposed to be going. I go round to the drivers side and politely ask him if he's crazy, He totally ignores me (perhaps the most infuriating reaction, especially as a simple wave of the hand or any apologetic gesture would have had me cycling on with no further comment). He's a guy in his 50's, the kind that cannot possibly be in the wrong. I ask him "can you see me!? I'm right here" carries on as if I don't exist. So I readjust his wing mirror, not violently or aggressively and not causing any damage but just to bring his attention to the fact that I exist and that his fucking mirrors are for using and at that point he lurches his car towards me aggressively, so I stop my bike in front of him and invite him to complete the job. He calms slightly I give him space and he accelerates up the road dangerously all the way to the next set of lights 60 metres up the road. I see him up there, I ask him what his problem is and finally he understands that his situation isn't that great and apologizes & I tell him that that is all I wanted and that he should be careful in future & go through the lights. A Taxi then accelerates past me shouting something, I then go to the next lights on amber and another taxi sounds his horn at me. Around the corner I'm on another cycle path next to a right turn (France) I see the woman behind me is indicating & I carry on so she has to wait for me for about 1.5 seconds. She sounds her horn so once again I give chase and patiently explain to her that just because she is indicating doesn't mean the whole world stops for her especially someone who is front of her. Cue everyone else around getting involved and shouting at me despite not seeing anything that happened. Fucking fucking annoying! Some days it seems that there is something in the water.