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Good time - I'm approaching cars stopped at a red light, filter through and my handlebar catches a wing mirror and pop it backwards. I stop and shimmy backwards and pop the mirror baqck into position, I ask if I've put it back properly and the driver tells me
"No move it a bit further back",
"Is that ok?",
"Nah a bit more forward",
"How about now?",
"Back a bit",
"Now?",
"A little bit more forward",
"You're winding me up aren't you?",
"Yeah mate don't worry about it" laughs and drives off and I laugh too.
Bad - Riding along a two lane road with a divider in the middle, I'm alongside a car, a bit back and to the right and I can see the drivers face in the wing mirror (I like to be in this situation as you know when the driver has seen you) and there is a car 3 metres behind me so I'm commited to staying where I am on the road for now. The cunt to the left of me starts changing into my lane, indicates about a second after moving and starts to push me right over into the divider, I accelerate for my life (quite literally) place my left foot resting on top of the handlebars and take his wing mirror clean off. Cue him overtaking me and stopping in my path to which I simply stated that as he wasn't using his mirrors I didn't see that he needed them anymore.