had another oh shit moment today but this time not on the bike, in the car. was going from one town to another to pick my mum up and theres a large set of roadworks with temporary traffic lights at a junction which is quite large with 4 different routes feeding into it. so anyway the route I was on was taking along time to go anywhere but I hadnt noticed or thought about it as i knew there was temporary lights. it was my turn at the front of the queue I pulled up and looked at the lights which were red. I thought the car in front of me did that old trick of running the light on the tail of the car in front when it was blatantly red, so i stop. the bloke in the silver toyota land cruiser goes completely librarian poo at me. screaming out the window at me, throwing his arms about and hanging out the window and calling me all the names under the sun. so im like what? confused. i look at the junction and decide its cos all the lights are broken and on red and this oaf just wants me to keep going. all the while hes revving his engine and almost bumping my car forward. (not actually touching) so i decide its safe to go. no one else on the junction going anywhere so I pull forward and turn left thinking thats that. this twat then comes alongsie screaming all kinds of abuse at me through his wifes passenger window saying hes going to smash my head in..., actually using his car to practically run me off the road. jerky unpredictable motions with his car so i slow down and im totally confused what I had done. so i keep going. the next set of lights are red...brown trousers time, i slow down and leave enough of a gap in front to pull into the next lane, im looking for an escape route if i need it. he stops an inch behind me and gets out. so i wait for him to get a few yards and floor it, into the next lane and luckily the lights go green. he gets back in his car then doesnt make any move to chase me, phew i think. so i nip back into the lane i need, follow the one way system, hes about 8 cars behind and after a couple of nips in and out of traffic i think im ok. go around a bed and im on the hill up to my mums...check the mirror, shit...hes now acclerating behind me. two turns to my mums...do i go there and try and get in the front door or do i keep going and risk getting caught at a set of lights? he tails me an inch from my bumper all the way to my mums road when i turn down it he stops at the entrance to the road and gets out again. so i get a bit of distance and pull in and dive into my mums house. looked out the winow and he had gone from the entrance. as soon as i thought it was safe (almost immediately) I came home and wont be taking my car round mums for a while, we will go in the gfs car. was shaking for an hour afterwards, even now typing this up im actually feeling sick again. first seriously fucked up road rage ive seen. this dude was massive and to get so angry and violent so quickly was the thing that i think has scared me the most. I have been over it again and again and still cannot think what I did that prompted the level of reaction. maybe i ran over his fluffy kitten by accident....
had another oh shit moment today but this time not on the bike, in the car. was going from one town to another to pick my mum up and theres a large set of roadworks with temporary traffic lights at a junction which is quite large with 4 different routes feeding into it. so anyway the route I was on was taking along time to go anywhere but I hadnt noticed or thought about it as i knew there was temporary lights. it was my turn at the front of the queue I pulled up and looked at the lights which were red. I thought the car in front of me did that old trick of running the light on the tail of the car in front when it was blatantly red, so i stop. the bloke in the silver toyota land cruiser goes completely librarian poo at me. screaming out the window at me, throwing his arms about and hanging out the window and calling me all the names under the sun. so im like what? confused. i look at the junction and decide its cos all the lights are broken and on red and this oaf just wants me to keep going. all the while hes revving his engine and almost bumping my car forward. (not actually touching) so i decide its safe to go. no one else on the junction going anywhere so I pull forward and turn left thinking thats that. this twat then comes alongsie screaming all kinds of abuse at me through his wifes passenger window saying hes going to smash my head in..., actually using his car to practically run me off the road. jerky unpredictable motions with his car so i slow down and im totally confused what I had done. so i keep going. the next set of lights are red...brown trousers time, i slow down and leave enough of a gap in front to pull into the next lane, im looking for an escape route if i need it. he stops an inch behind me and gets out. so i wait for him to get a few yards and floor it, into the next lane and luckily the lights go green. he gets back in his car then doesnt make any move to chase me, phew i think. so i nip back into the lane i need, follow the one way system, hes about 8 cars behind and after a couple of nips in and out of traffic i think im ok. go around a bed and im on the hill up to my mums...check the mirror, shit...hes now acclerating behind me. two turns to my mums...do i go there and try and get in the front door or do i keep going and risk getting caught at a set of lights? he tails me an inch from my bumper all the way to my mums road when i turn down it he stops at the entrance to the road and gets out again. so i get a bit of distance and pull in and dive into my mums house. looked out the winow and he had gone from the entrance. as soon as i thought it was safe (almost immediately) I came home and wont be taking my car round mums for a while, we will go in the gfs car. was shaking for an hour afterwards, even now typing this up im actually feeling sick again. first seriously fucked up road rage ive seen. this dude was massive and to get so angry and violent so quickly was the thing that i think has scared me the most. I have been over it again and again and still cannot think what I did that prompted the level of reaction. maybe i ran over his fluffy kitten by accident....
proper brown trousers...