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@skidlidsid
Nothing as exciting as dogs and ambulances, but I had a pretty heated disagreement with a bus driver coming round E&C southbound this evening.
Cycle lane was congested, and being at the back of a wave through the first set of lights invariably ends in conflict with a bus pulling into the stops outside the shopping centre after the second set - so I take the lane behind one bus and in front of another.
Bus driver behind me does not like this at all - beeping and gesticulating. Don't know where he thinks he's going to go if I move out the way - there's another dirty great bus in front of me that he has to wait for. I hold my ground.
Decide to have words once he pulls into his stop (a task I've probably made much easier for him by not being on his left).I pull up to his cabin window - which is promptly slammed rather aggressively, so aggressively that it bounces back, leaving a gap for me to yell a quick "I've not slowed you down there, mate, have I? We were both in a queue."
Segregated lanes don't half create a stick to beat you with when you venture out of them...