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@spindrift
Blokes often simply will not concede they did anything wrong. take a punishment pass, if you confront them you get the inevitable "You were in the middle of the road!" Which is basically admitting a punishment pass, it's admitting that the driver saw you but overtook anyway, it was my fault for..being there. With left hooks I've sometimes thought about scraping their near side with my pedal, clipped in it would take some jiggling and scratching to get clear. Then I think I don't want those thoughts in my head, it kind of presupposes conflict and mayhem and violence. I've shaken my head at drivers and they sound the horn. I've turned round to a tailgater and they shrug and hold their hands up. Couldn't care less.
I can't think of a way of approaching a driver that would lead to a positive result, I'm afraid it would just escalate things so I tut in my head and carry on.