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Had two near misses with pedestrians in as many days.
Coming home from nursery with a 3yo on the back - school kid blithely stroll out from next to a van and clips my arm. He’s fine but I only just manage to keep the bike upright. Lots of swearing at an 11 year old - not my finest hour.
This morning I’m coming off a roundabout through a green light - many peds waiting and I slow from quite fast to just fast (yes, wiser me and would have slowed more) and make much eye contact. Apart from with some bright spark who wanders out looking the other way. Cue locked back wheel, much shouting, and probably a pavement full of people assuming I was in the wrong...