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I just had some fun on Essex Road, if you like that kind of thing. This guy decided to turn left across me, problem was he lived just off it, so was turning into his garage. So I gave chase and had an interesting conversation. His justification was that I'd cut in front of him at the lights by Essex Road station. What he meant by cut in front of him was I'd ridden into the ASL box! Then his justification became well I signalled, then it moved to something else.
I couldn't be bothered with agro so I had quite a reasonable conversation with him in the end, but just asked him to think if signalling at the last minute then turning across a cyclist before they even have time to brake like that is really reasonable, given if took all my skill to avoid hitting the side of his car.
I was actually going fast, because I felt like it, but I did nothing wrong, and I do get tired of having these conversations.
Sigh.