stickyShould have asked for cameras for Christmas - just about got taken out by a punishment pass at the bottom of Easter Road just before the junction at Duke Street. Turned on from Brunswick Road, was sailing down no problem at 20-23 mph thanks to the slope, kept checking my mirror and the headlights were a couple of lengths behind so no bother I thought. Then just after the pinch point between Thorntree St & Gordon St one of those wee half-vans(white, of course - never let a stereotype go to waste) revs up and blasts past me leaning on their horn about six inches off my handlebar.
Caught up with them five seconds later at the light - which of course, was red and already had a queue of cars at it - and remonstrated a bit that I was already going the limit so she shouldn't be overtaking and there's no need for the horn, and she immediately reveals herself with "NUH YOUR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD LIKE YOUR A MOTOR F*** **F", followed up with "I dinnae care about the f****** limit whats that got tae dae wi' anyhin!", and finishes off with a pretty pathetic "feel good about yourself shoutin' at a lassie do you". Light changed and I rode off giving a well-deserved one finger salute and she was still leaning on her horn when as she drove off into the distance.
And as a lovely chaser, came around a corner on the way home and just about went into the back of an illegally stopped Tesco van(double yellows and double hashes) that seemed to have chosen where to stop specifically so he'd be invisible behind a hedge until the last moment, but still close enough to the corner to give anyone turning a heart attack.
****sake, how is it these dimwits are granted permanent license to drive multi-ton killing machines around yet they can know less about the rules of the road than a novice cyclist who's never even taken a driving test?
[ADMIN EDIT: Rule 2 applies, even while writing in the heat of the moment.]
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