I had a go at a taxi driver this morning because he reversed out into the road right in front of me without looking for oncomming traffic. I could see through his windows he was looking the other way. Caused me to brake and swerve pretty eratically on to the other side of the road to avoid him. If I was a bus his taxi would have been obliterated. So I waited for him to pull away and catch me up then tapped on the side of car /people carrier, I hung around in the middle of the road and he came up the inside of me so I was on the drivers side.... window comes down...
all this goes on whilst I'm riding along slowly next to his car...
'what you doin' mate ?' he says to me.
me 'you nearly ran me over back there reversing into the road without looking'
'I haven't got time for this I'm busy'
me 'you what, you could've cause me to swerve into oncomming traffic and if I was a bus you'd have been obliterated'
'I don't care'
...and he started to accelerate away so grabbed hold of the door pillar, he looked shocked.
'aren't you going to apologise ?'
'I didn't see you'
me 'that's 'cause you weren't looking'
...at this point he accelerates again but I still hold on, telling him to look where he's going in future.. he then hits the button for the electric window and I had to let go.
totally pointless incident. Did I expect him to apologise, not really.
Kev
is the best bet on a bicycle though.
