Is it the rain? I came along gilmore place and NMW and encountered more idiots than ever before in a 5 min cycle. Pedestrians wandering heads down out into traffic across Gilmore place. Cars gunning it past me, desperate to get past. Girls, smoking, presumably heading to St Thomas Aquin, walking four abreast across the cycle side of NMW.
Of particular note were the vehicles desperate to get to the light at the Kings Junction, which ahd clearly just turned red. There were vehicles at funny angles ahead, and the red light, but they still ahd to get past me.
Saw one car pulling out, but unable to do more than nudge out into traffic. Noticed it had white stuff billowing out the door. Given where it was, I thought it might be a sari about to get completely ruined by rain and mud, so I zoomed up, stopped and knocked on his window. turned out just to be a voluminous plastic cover on the seat. the (male, asian) driver was grateful, but woman in car alongside clearly resented me having stopped beside him and accelerated like someone possessed to get past to junction - not that there was evern anyone else in that lane. Amusingly, she did stop at the ASL. I nipped past and stopped, only to have LB 10 'clip' the corner and nearly run over my toes, despite them being well inside the ASL.
Crazy morning all round. can only get better right?
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