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Out of all of the years I have spent battering around town on a bike, I have never had, or envisioned I would ever have the what I always perceived to be a stereotypical encounter with a motorist along the lines of "What are you doing in the middle of the road!?"
Unfortunately just now on the OKR some prick overtook me nice and close, nearly coming into contact with a motorist in the lane to his right.
I just shrugged it off but the lights ahead turned red, he stopped and I shortly followed and sat in the ASL only to hear that famous line shouted at me from his window.
At that point the lights immediately changed to green so I started to go, as I moved off I turned around to meet eyes with this moron and he pulled up next to me as we were both rolling to ask the same question again.
I just replied "I'm legally allowed to be here." He obviously didn't understand that and dropped in "this is why you all get killed".
As expected I immediately offered him out over a very heated 10 second back and forward deafening exchange of bad sentences and he just drove off.
I am aghast, I cant believe I've actually met one of these wankers but I wont let it tarnish my veiw of motorists and I'm not going to generalise.
I must pass hundreds of motorists during the rush hour commute every week and 99.9% of them are super cool and polite as far as I'm personally concerned, if anything they are too busy mugging each other off to notice me but I'm just really disappointed tonight. sadface