What is your least favourite part about cycling?

^ OR he could learn to take it on the chin, as a bit of banter from a knobhead, return the banter, walk away and utter 'cunt' under his breath, accept that you can't win everybody over and move on.....?

Absolutely not. The best reaction is a massive overreaction, as my old landlord used to say. He once told me a story about an old friend of his who used to be his boss at an agency in Notting Hill Gate. He lent his friend the Robert Maxwell biography and it changed his life. He was always an argumentative and combative sort, but now, whenever a client or a contractor or an old girlfriend or someone who cut him up on the road or a neighbour whose dog he didn't like crossed him, he would have his solicitor injunct them. Apparently it cost about 2 grand a pop but it was worth it to see the panic, hatred and anger it provoked in the other party. Eventually he took on a large Spanish industrial company because, during a boozy lunch, one of the directors jokingly suggested that he might buy a small stake in the man's small agency. Once he'd sobered up he sent a sober and respectful nolo me contendere but it was too late. The chap devoted himself to pursuing the Spaniards, and after a four year suit, the court decided that he needed to be paid a large enough sum of money to retire to an agreeable home in Buckinghamshire with ten acres.

Anyway the moral of the story is that backing down and being the better man is for people who don't want ten acres in Buckinghamshire or a golden yacht.