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Time to be unbearably smug alert!

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  • Started 11 years ago by kaputnik
  • Latest reply from Uberuce

  1. Baldcyclist
    Member

    drifting away....

    I was incredibly smug this morning. Coming up Morrison St I passed a Ford Ka and entered the ASL just at MacDonald cycles.

    Lights go green, and he races (well as much aas a Ford Ka can) up to the next set of lights at junction with Lothian Rd.

    Of course knowing sequence of lights I meander up behind him, and then give hime a little clap. You know, I just wanted to congratulate him on the awesomeness of his victory, seemed appropriate.

    For some reason he didn't appreciate my applause, and gave me the finger? Some people just don't appreciate being given credit I guess.

    Next set of lights he races past me again as I deliberately meander some more, he then tries to block my entrance to the ASL at the junction at Goldbergs (remember that?), so I meander past him again on the bus lane side and position in front of him.

    Then the punishment pass as he passes just at Soul cycles, and he gives me another middle finger wave.

    I'm then locking my bike up to the railings at work when he parks just in front in the parking spaces, and I recognise him from work (not my team though) so decide to give the 'hiya, how are you doing, not seem you in ages' wave.

    If there had been any stones lying around he would have crawled under it, his face was a picture, smug!

    Posted 11 years ago #
  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    so decide to give the 'hiya, how are you doing, not seem you in ages' wave

    That's an old ruse that my Grandmother taught me. Being elderly and with arthritis, and refusing a stick, it could take her a wee while to get across the road. Whenever she got gyp off of motorists, she'd give them a big wave and a smile and feign recognition.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  3. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    @baldcyclist, I've been cut up a couple of times by people I worked with. It's a weird experience. Really shows how people's personalities change when they drive.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  4. Coxy
    Member

    Hopefully by seeing that its someone they know, it might personalise things a little and make them think about how they're behaving.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  5. Uberuce
    Member

    I suspect I've been recognised a couple of times by NHS staff shortly after they've pulled some rubbish driving, after which they become angelic.

    Either that of there's one driver of NHS liveried vehicles who has extreme mood swings behind the wheel.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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