Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: Pete on 29 August, 2008, 01:39:01 pm
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That's all I said - in a perfectly calm, even-tenored voice, not a shout - to this old geezer who tried to pull into a roundabout across my path, just now. He was pulling a light trailer, which would have made an 'encounter' that much more interesting. He genuinely hadn't seen me and the horrified, startled look on his face worried me for an instant - he must have been in his late seventies and just then my thought went 'heart attack?'...
But - what the hell - I'm not far short of sixty, myself. I'm so used to this sort of incident, it's so commonplace, that I never venture onto a roundabout without expecting it, nowadays. I could have stopped before hitting him, if need be.
I merely slowly shook my head and cycled on... I feel good about not having actually shouted or mouthed obscenities (as I so often do).
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I was in a taxi that pulled onto a Marble Arch just missing a cyclist. 'Are you blind' screamed cyclist - and then reached into the cab and threw the cabbies glasses into the road where they were squashed.
Then the cabbie was blind.
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Nasty moment, even if you have predicted it.
Hopefully the driver will take a bit more time to look next time. ::-)