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An open letter to Mr BMW Pillock

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  • Started 12 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
  • Latest reply from crowriver

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  1. Dear Mr BMW Pillock

    I must admit I am aware that this morning, on a long straight road with perfect sight lines, and in clear daylight from behind given near ideal visibility, I was riding somewhat out from the left hand side of the road. Given the aforementioned sight lines and visibility I would have hoped you would realise this was because the left hand side of the road was a parking area, with a parked car ahead, just before a set of traffic lights, on red, with queuing traffic behind it, curling past the parked car. Maybe you were a little too focussed on desperately trying to get past the cyclist to notice all of this, and maybe that's why, not having yet overtaken the cyclist, you started moving back in left.

    I must apologise, because while I shouted "Oi! I'm still here!" I did not catch your response as, I surmise, you lacked the intelligence to wind down your window, leaving the shout somewhat muffled.

    I must confess I did hear the beeping thereafter from you behind me. I would have tried to move left to let such a dignified and important individual as yourself go past me, but at the time I was passing the parked car I referred to earlier, then moving left to go past the cars waiting to turn right, and had a Kia in front of me that was slowing me down. After this I would have tried to move a little more quickly as your beeping continued inches from my back wheel, I tried to urge myself on, but I had hit the wall... Of cars ahead that were travelling at 17mph in a big queue.

    I must commiserate that we were not able to chat through your utter moronic gimboidness, but those queuing cars were then turning right, blocking the road, save for a gap large enough for half a BMW (or about 3 bikes) to go past to carry on in a straight ahead direction. I did not hear you beeping at those cars impeding your forward momentum, but I can only put this down to me being so far away and therefore out of earshot.

    I must, finally, offer my sincerest of condolences for your loss of face, looking daft to passing pedestrians, and the (lacking) size of your male appendage. I would have stopped to have an exchange of views, but I find talking with the hard of thinking to be a trying experience at the best of times and I may have had to hand you your head on a plate.

    Oh, and you're fat.

    Yours sincerely
    Anth

    Posted 12 years ago #
  2. steveo
    Member

    Why is it aways German car drivers...

    Posted 12 years ago #
  3. splitshift
    Member

    cause they are more important ?

    Posted 12 years ago #
  4. Min
    Member

    I think you mean drivers of German cars! :-D

    What a complete tosser.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  5. Checked the video (I like that my camera has a wee screen) and it wasn't actually at the first junction that there were cars on the right. Still holds though - queuing traffic ahead; red light; parked car; keeping pace with traffic ahead when it moved. A fairly stereotypical 'must get by the cyclist' moment, followed by anger because what he was doing was shown to be a bit stupid and innattentive.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  6. PS
    Member

    "Why is it aways German car drivers..."

    Ain't always - Last night I was in the right hand lane heading west on East Preston St towards a line of stationary traffic at the lights. I was going to be turning right onto South Clerk St, so appropriately positioned. 30 yards from the back of the line I had a tool in a (I think) Fiesta accelerate, cross into the other carriageway to overtake me, then swing back in to join a line of stationary traffic right in front of me. I had to swing into the other carriageway to avoid a slamming on the anchors scenario, which unfortunately distracted me to the extent that I couldn't come up with anything more cutting than a "What was that?" as I went past him to the front of the queue.

    This event was closely followed by an oriental lady running out in front of me on South Clerk St. I gave her the fright of her life with a shout of "Whoa!Steady on" as I swerved all over the road to avoid her...

    Posted 12 years ago #
  7. Uberuce
    Member

    I had the same thing with Green Van Man a while back.

    If he'd look past my wee bum he'd have seen the only way he could have gained any time would be to run up the right filter to overtake the queue of cars waiting to go straight on, jumped the red either across the pedestrian phase(which was on as I was 'blocking' him or into the oncoming traffic, then cut back into the straight lane.

    There may be some alternate reality in which I'll feel bad for stopping him do that, but here on Earth, he's a foolio.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  8. Nelly
    Member

    Many are about as German as I am.

    The X5 (personal bugbear of mine for its roaring engine and sheer bulk) is actually built in the USA.

    Why? I hear you ask.

    Because thats the biggest market for SUVs (alt name for numpty pseudo 4X4s which will never actually see a ploughed field).

    n.b. the 3 series (nice family car, more popular than a mondeo, dont ya know) on the other hand, is built in Bavaria.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  9. minimoth
    Member

    "Oh, and you're fat" :) perfect ending.

    I had a BMW doing something similar a few weeks back but he also opened his passenger door to block my path. He didn't realise he wouldn't be able to reach it to close it again, until a traffic warden came to his aid and asked what was going on. Made me smile to myself all the way to work.

    Oh yes and he was fat too!

    Posted 12 years ago #
  10. Darkerside
    Member

    *writes down 'utter moronic gimboidness' for later use*

    Posted 12 years ago #
  11. Min
    Member

    Minimoth - that is priceless. :-D

    Posted 12 years ago #
  12. Kirst
    Member

    Can we stop with the fat abuse please?

    Posted 12 years ago #
  13. crowriver
    Member

    Watch out for those Vauxhall drivers too. Maybe they have some kind of inferiority complex and actually want to be driving a beamer, but they are just as dangerous as our Bavarian würst munchers, maybe even more so.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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