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Mini-incident on the way home.
I'm at the front of a group of fellow commuters moving away from the lights at Clapham Common. I see a bus indicating right and beginning to move away from its stop, so I hold out my hand to my left in a slow down/stop type signal to discourage anyone from trying anything on my left and bring myself to a stop.
Cue a cyclist or two nipping up my inside anyway, and an earful from a Scottish gentleman about what I was doing stopping in the middle of the road.
I catch him up to explain that I was letting the bus out, and he said I should have signaled. I point out that I did do that, and his reply is that the girl in front of him didn't see it. Um... OK.
Right, in hindsight letting the bus out was an unusual decision given that I had half a dozen riders behind me - but come on. If I stop I stop. You wouldn't question a car doing that...