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@Husy
My oh shit moments always seem to come in three and one of them always involves a rich twat in a supercar.
Yesterday, car randomly slams brakes full on. I just about manage to swerve and hop onto the pavement. Turns out he's having an argument with his wife. Show him the finger and carry on.
On my commute back a driver talking on his IPhone with a Louis Vuitton case in a yellow Lamborghini doesn't seem to think a cyclist is good enough for him to wait. He looks me in the eye and then swerves out across my lane into the side road on the left. I call him a f*cking cnut or something to that effect, and knock his car as I swerve past. He beeps and gets out but some bloke on a motorbike tells him to get back in or he'll call the police. I was in a rush but in hindsight I should have taken his plate.
Early morning today i'm keeping my distance from this massive slow moving HGV in the left lane. Driver aware of my presence as I had overtaken a few times when he stopped in traffic. Road clears up, I'm bang in the middle of right lane as to not be on his inside (possibly in his blind spot for a few seconds but he should have seen me approach). Starts edging into my lane, I assume he's avoiding a parked car on his left or something but then it turns into a fully fledged U-turn and I end up U-turning on his inside to avoid being another statistic. He only realises after he had pulled across all 4 lanes of the road and started going the other way. He got out and apologised repeatedly, saying he didn't see me. I was happy to still be alive and kept shouting "That's how cyclist die!" until I calmed down. Still unsure of what to do. I have his number plate.