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It's so frustrating that our lives are at the hands of people who
massively overestimate their ability to drive even to the complete
minimum standard (safety), & how little we can get through to people
like that, as they immediately go on the attack when they're
'threatened'. They just don't have any empathy.can emphasise here, glad you managed to put some distance between you and them.
Had an incident similar to this a week or so ago, gave him a knock on the bonnet to wake him up at the lights as he didn't seem to react to anything (including other cars), he gets incredibly arrogant and aggressive. From this point I decide to take another route to avoid him doing something silly, but he follows and throws a full 2L bottle at me (was fine, anticipated it when i saw him in my peripheral)
It's irritating because unless you spend a few hundred pounds on equipment to cover yourself for even a chance at prosecution, you're just at the mercy of drivers getting out the right side of bed
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Awful commute this morning. Some prick in a Mercedes pulls out to undertake after neither indicating nor looking, leaving me nowhere to go. Thankfully managed to avoid coming off. So I confront the guy at when he's stopped at traffic & he's exactly what you'd expect - arrogant & ignorant - winding up the window after I start telling me how dangerously he's driven.
So I ride on through two sets of lights & on the next red another cyclist comes up to me & tells me that the driver has just done a similar thing to him, & that he's driving aggressively to catch me up. Thankfully by that point it was bus lanes & the pedestrianised bit in the centre of Leeds. What a complete tosser.
It's so frustrating that our lives are at the hands of people who massively overestimate their ability to drive even to the complete minimum standard (safety), & how little we can get through to people like that, as they immediately go on the attack when they're 'threatened'. They just don't have any empathy.
Points to the guy in the lift from the parking level in the office, who'd just got out of a massive Jaguar & tried to emphasise with my plight this morning with a story about being cut up skiing.
Got to my desk & realised that I had forgotten the key to get my laptop out, so had to head back out again. At least it wasn't raining, eh.