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Being a driving instructor counts as having one in your car, though.
Also, people don't check their bloody mirrors, even though it's not hard, and even when they're not called Shirley. I cycled to work for about a mile a couple of weeks ago behind a dude driving his car along with his nearside wing mirror still folded in, for fuck's sake. Could have overtaken him at any point but didn't want to risk him overtaking me again later. I was going to ask him if he wanted me to fold it out for him at the first set of traffic lights we approached but he turned off somewhere else so I didn't get the opportunity. He wasn't checking his rearview mirror much either.
This is one of those circumstances where, instead of becoming cross about what other people should be doing, I'd prefer to note that they're not doing what they should be doing and keep as far away from them as possible.