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Going west from Gt Marlborough St into Mayfair, am stopped at the lights by Liberty (as usual - they are always bloody red). As the lights are about to change, I take prime position in the outside lane, moving from kerbside to the middle of the lane.
As I'm half way across Regent St, a black cab undercuts me at speed, managing to nip into Maddox St just ahead of me, without forcing me to do something daft. I got a real fright.
So I catch him up at the junction with Bond St, pull up to his window and say "are you trying to be funny?" He's a real gor-blimey strike-a-light character with a fag hanging out of his mouth. His response: "Bloody hell, sorry about that mate, I thought you were moving to turn right, then when you went straight ahead I thought 'fuck me'... I'm a cyclist myself, Santa Cruz innit... I wasn't trying to kill you!"
So apology accepted, and it proved to me that having words with drivers is totally worth it: if I hadn't spoken to him, I'd have been going around for the rest of the day thinking about "that wanker in the black cab".