Actually, I wasn't on edge. I have just finished reading Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, and am part way into The Feeling Good Handbook. When the bus pulled out on me I was thinking "Am I committing one of the 10 cognitive distortions?" and trying to be extra-specially laid back and mellow (not making "should" statements).
The driver is a professional driver. He may have made a mistake. We all do on the roads (including me). He had a chance to apologise, explain, be humble or whatever, but instead he chose to sneer and drive his bus into me so as to force me into the next lane of traffic. That wasn't a mistake. Nor was it an overreaction on my part.
Further up the road he passed me and cut straight back in on the way past, not after he passed, I had to brake to avoid being squashed. That was also deliberate - not an accident or error - deliberate, and unacceptable.
