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@edmundane
one thing i often encounter is that peds always look the bloody wrong way. i'm a skinny cyclist on a skinny bike but i have BRIGHT COLOURS you can see from yards away, but they assume i'm not a car and step out onto the bloody road looking down the other side for opposite traffic, usually in a hesitant manner (run? cross slowly or GO BACK?) and in the end they almost always hit right in my path i have to swerve and shout "WATCH IT!!!" right in their ears.
i consider myself very lucky not to have hit anyone at all.
another thing i really hate is when they cross the road at lights they start crossing before they reach the actual crossing. i was at the lights once and this bitch walked out almost straight into my left i had to roll back to avoid her and lost my balance falling over to the left with my left foot clipped in. made me look a right idiot with that cabbie laughing behind me.