23.06.09
Rage
I had a 28 Days Later moment this afternoon.
I was on my bike coming home from work. I got to a crossroad (good choice of name there). And I was trying to get across the main road from a side road. Imagine a busy main road at rush hour. So loads of zoomy cars not letting a bike through cos bikes aren’t worth letting out (unlike cars).
I was at the junction with a car sat behind me.
I heard a BEEP! from the car. Looked round to see a young woman driving and a HUGE scary looking man in the passenger seat.
I ignored them. I was in the right place and just waiting for a gap.
HUGE bloke decides to yell at me as if I’m the idiot.
What does he expect to gain here? He’ll get to the junction a tiny bit earlier but then they’re stuck again. I could get onto the road as soon as they could.
But apparently a bike in front of them is anathema.
I pointed at the zoomy cars as to say “What? Where are you going to go?”
He got out the car yelling randomly (apparently) and making extremely threatening overtures at me.
I should remind you that the road was extremely busy. Loads of people were watching this including from cars behind them and on the main road. Did he really think he was going to randomly beat up someone who’d done nothing beyond cycle safely and correctly?
Luckily at that point someone let me out so I set off bravely managing a “wanker” hand signal at him before pulling into the local Tesco garage – IE somewhere with CCTV in case of severe beatage up and somewhere with loads of people hanging around including security guard.
I love some people. And what was the woman thinking? Poor thing having to live with that.