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@Jimmy_Fingers
After the bliss of carless Bristol, was approaching some traffic lights which were red which lead on to a one way road with two lanes so an automatic right hand turn. There was a queue of a few cars, I debated filtered but decided it was too tight so waited behind the last car next to some parked cars on the left. There was a traffic island ahead. Lights change, cars pull away, car in front of me is a little slow off the mark and I follow him. Suddenly there is a revving engine and car trying to overtake me before the lights and the turn.
Because of the island there is nowhere to go as I was in primary so he has to brake in the middle of the road. I ask him what the fuck he is doing and he starts to swear at me for being in the middle of the road. I shout back but what a fucking muppet: I am turning right and going into the right-hand lane, where else am I going to be? I ride off giving him the finger and onto the two lane road expecting a nasty overtake but he doesn't come past me and then he's not behind me so I reckon the prick was looking for a parking spot.
This is the thing that probably boils my piss more than anything else: unnecessary, impatient overtakes.