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@Jimmy_Fingers
Ha finally I have reason to use this thread properly. There's an strange bit of road in Cheltenham called Pittville Street. Heading out of town you turn left onto it from the one way system. The opposite side of the road is a bus lane for coming into town. As I cycled up to the red lights at the end of a section of the road a fat chap on a MTB wobbled from the left hand side to the right, so the bus lane, with oncoming buses. I thought he was going to mount the pavement but instead he stopped right on the corner and lent on a bollard. Buses turn right onto this road and if one had he would have been clipped. So he was well in advance of the stop line, on the opposite side on the road waiting right on the corner. The lights changed as I rode past him I told him its people like him that give cycling a bad name. Seriously he was melting my mind with his stupidity. He shouted back something about a cycle lane but I was gone. As I cycled down a bus was coming the other way. Again I assumed he had turned left or something because otherwise he was riding straight into that bus.
Amazingly he popped up at the next set of traffic lights. Me in the ASZ, him still in the oncoming lane waiting the wrong side of the traffic island. From his position on the wrong side of the road he informed me it was a cycle lane. I told it was a bus lane that cycles can use IF THEY'RE GOING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. I would have hoped the bus he met and hopped onto the pavement to avoid might have given him the clue. He still insisted he was in the right and proved it by saying 'arrest me' and jumping the red light, again from the wrong side of the road. I told him he was a prick and pulled off myself as the lights changed. He skidded to a stop, mistakenly believing that in someway I wanted to fight him over it so I just sailed past and told him to 'catch me if you can dickhead'. He didn't needless to say.
Seriously the stupidest bit of riding I have ever witnessed. Darwin will be wondering how he's survived this long.