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Some people just can’t do it. They can’t handle driving 10 or even 5 mph slower than they would have otherwise, even for 30 seconds.
I had a colleague once who, when they were rolling out the 20mph zones in Bristol, tried to explain how it’s actually difficult to drive that slowly. I think he thought he was being quite reasonable, as if he’d dearly love to stick to the speed limit if only it wasn’t somehow a difficult thing to do.
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Had a fast, close pass last night, then the car started indicating right. There was oncoming cars so the driver had to stop and wait, leaving me with a narrow gap to squeeze through. So I gave the car a whack as I went through.
Then a white van came pass me with inches to spare this morning. Then immediately slowed so I went past him again, as he pulled over to the other side of the road. Gave the van a whack again and felt like confronting the driver but had to get a train. Made me wonder if he had even seen me as the sun was bright and low and he presumably was looking for a spot to park on the other side of the road. Which is actually more frightening than him just being a cunt driver.
If there is one thing that really boils my piss it is unnecessary overtaking: about to pull over, about to turn right or left, about to join a queue of traffic or there is a red light ahead? Then fucking wait behind the cyclist for a few seconds, its not fucking hard.