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This morning at 7:45 a guy in a Fiat 500 with the numberplate "55 DAN" overtook the queue of traffic going North at the lights at the junction of Seymour Place and Euston Road and pulled alongside me at the front, indicating to turn left.
I gesticulated, something along the lines of "what on earth are you doing?" and he wound down his window and asked whether I "wanted to be knocked off [my] bike". I pointed out that he had no excuse for what he'd just done (big queue of traffic going straight or turning left, he had absolutely no reason to overtake them) and he reasoned that "some people don't know how to use the road"...
Lights changed, he cut across me to turn left (I was going straight), standard.
Spent the next 10 minutes trying to work out what had just happened and laughing to myself. Best/worst bit was that this interaction took place while his 10 year old daughter was sat in the passenger seat.
I will report this to roadsafe, though I suspect there's no point. Had to share though, I was genuinely impressed by his tenacity.