Specialised London Lamesters

Okay here we go: a (sadly) negative thread here. I thought it would be interesting for people to air their beefs/annoyances/upsets/egobruisings about those "Londoners" (I'm including anyone you've encountered in London here - born and bred, works, lived here for a few years etc.) who decide to make a negative deal out of us enjoying our bit of fulfilment in life. I'll start off with two, one serious one just rather rude:

1) I was cycling around Peckham way last Saturday when a cabbie decided to swing wildly into bus lane with the fairly plain intent of making me plough into some parked cars. I had a standoff with him at the next lights as my buddy got the licence number and he was actually laughing when I challenged him about it, suggesting he really did do it cos he didn't like me or cyclists or both; unfortunately he couldn't beat the Clapham Slapper at its most determined and I thus berated him every lights from Peckham to Vauxhall, including when he'd just picked up a passenger, so they knew what kind of horrible person they'd be paying their money to.

**2) A rather sour woman working in a renowned Old St "proper pub" (it's a reliable kind of place..) just now started a moody rant about how I'd been pissed there three times in the last few months (er...it's a pub) by saying, "What the f*ck is with the hat?" I explained it was a cycling hat, I was a cyclist and was just having my first pint of the evening after a long day. She looked at me like I had just taken a leery dump in her handbag, then hit me with hat-based vitriol for a good five minutes. Okay so I wear a few geeky cycle caps, jeez. **

I had two people try to run me over yesterday. The first was on my way to work with a guy in a hairdresser's car on a mini-roundabout, who called me a twat for not indicating. On a mini-roundabout. While I accept that you should generally indicate, it's a mini-round about. There is zero scope for overtaking.

Second one was some guy trying to run me into parked cars on the Essex because I'd not let him out of a turning. Might, however, have been because he had a small penis (he was driving an 04 plate BMW). Might have had a word but he a) had a full car and I think the cuntishness was for the benefit of the passengers anyway and b) I'm not a fighter.

I think that they need to pedestrianise the entire of zones 1 & 2. Or at least extend the congestion charge and put it up to a real amount.