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This morning while passing a line of buses on Walworth Road, one of them starts to pull out without warning. Not really too much of an issue, I was giving them a wide berth and there were another two lanes to play with. But I still swerved a bit. At that point the car behind me beeps so I turn and give them the statutory 2 second finger without saying a word.
They then pass and stop at the lights ahead. As I pass them again, I glance in and see someone who looks remarkably like my wife's ex-boss, who still gives her the odd bit if freelance work.
Either it was him and he recognised me and was just beeping a friendly hello (albeit at an inappropriate moment), or it wasn't him and it was just another impatient driver.
My wife is currently writing an email with the subject "Did my husband swear at you this morning?"
Normally, I wouldn't really care, I know why I did it and I stand by the circumstances. However, we are due to be going to their wedding anniversary garden party at their house this weekend........
I never see the guy, and the one time I do, I flip him off! Potentially.