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@ChasnotRobert
Minor incident to report: I'm on the home straight down Boundary Rd E17, which I use to avoid part of Lea Bridge Rd but I'm now thinking it's possibly no better due to lots of shit driving and shit traffic calming measures.
Anyway, I'm slightly behind a vehicle, we are both heading east and I see there is a guy wanting to turn right and he is planning to make his turn as soon as the vehicle in front of me goes past him. So I make eye contact and carry on, he brakes and shouts something at me out of his window.
I see red at this point; he wants to turn across me and it's now my problem?!
So I u turn, sprint after him and follow round the block until he pulls over to park and then I ask him what it was he wanted to say to me when he was shouting out of his window.
He says "you should be wearing a yellow vest, can't see you"
Wtf? You can't see a 6'3" lump with a bright blue top in broad daylight?
I explain that there is no obligation to wear hi viz, but thanks for the advice. Should have added "get your ****in eyes tested".
Epic fail on useful retort to shit driver.