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almost got hit by a car this morning because the fella decided indicating was optional and turned across my path. It was all very slow speed as he was heading around a sharp corner but had to move out the way as I was in his path. There was no crash and no one touched anything, but I went to speak to him as he stopped. With a straight face, and genuinely seriously, he said that I had "nearly killed him" which literally made me laugh out loud (and the nice lady with a pushchair who backed me up). What was worse was the cars waiting shaking their heads at me, as if it was my fault. I pointed out that the other car didn't indicate and therefore to direct their scorn to him but got a: "you shouldn't be on the roads without insurance/tax or a helmet, no one indicates off this part of the road, if you were a driver you'd know that". You can't reason with knuckle draggers like that so I went my own way without replying only to get a punish pass from the prick. WAFC.