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@machineisbored
..got the most cross I've ever been with someone on two wheels.
Was waiting to pull out into the road outside my house. 2 cars were driving down the road, and a woman in a van coming up the road had pulled into the side to let them pass. All gravy - I was happily waiting for the van come past me before I pulled out.
Suddenly this arse on two wheels (business dress, helmet, nice looking light tourer with a shiny Brooks & bar end shifters) squeezes through the space between the van coming up the road and the parked cars on the left, with a plummy shout of "STUPID IDIOT!"
Completely uncalled for from where I'm waiting patiently, and ruined any semblance of my good Tuesday morning mood.
Worse news is this business type is not a push-over to drop on the part of the ride to work he shares with me - even taking into account the fact that he takes a short-cut that I forego, preferring to stay on the road. But he put me in no mood to draft, so I didn't let his gears beat my fixed, and was (embarrassingly) pretty out of puff by the time I pulled into work (and he was only a few bike lengths behind me when I signalled to turn into Princes St).
tl;dr: Bah. Living up to the brand of my ride recently.