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I’m coming down the high road through Putney. Traffic lights everywhere, general gridlock (for cars). I’m going down the main road and the green light from a side road turns orange then red, so I keep going. Cars keep coming out of side road jumping orange then red, but by this time I’d set off as I had green. Watching all these cars that keep coming, I see some bloke in a ute who had jumped the red by about 5 seconds coming straight at me. So I shout, “That’s a fucking red light, you fucking cunt”. (I'm not normally aggressive, this was just a kneejerk reaction at being nearly run over)
Anyway he drives up alongside me and starts shouting back. I rephrase my earlier comment with more flowery language. As I start filtering ahead, he starts shouting “Oy! Come back here, fucking come back here”, clearly up for a bit of fisticuffs. He may have even got out of his car.
I give him a cheery wave as I progress down the street still hearing his shouts, and within a minute I’m probably 50 cars ahead of him on the other side of the bridge.
Fucking cunt. He’s probably gonna go home and beat seven shades of shit out of his wife now.
All quite boring really, just thought I'd share/vent.