Approaching the lights at the junction just before Southwark Bridge and a van lurches into the left-hand lane, causing all the cyclists to brake to let him in.
Behind me I heard someone start shouting at the top of his lungs at the van driver. When we all came to a halt at the lights, I could hear (I didn’t turn my head) the driver start shouting back. When he wasn’t getting anywhere (“Cyclists have the right of way!”) the cyclist asked “Anyone? Yeah?” and one or two (including me) turned round to look.
There they were, each bellowing at the other at the top of their lungs and neither paying any attention to what was being said. They looked like a couple of fighting dogs on leashes.
Finally, the cyclist shouted “Grow up!” and the driver came straight back with “No, YOU grow up!”
It occurred to me that that’s just the sort of response a child would come back with and I thought the cyclist might have had a point.
Anyway, as the traffic started to move off, the driver wound down both windows and was still shouting for all he was worth (at who I don’t know, the cyclist had gone) and as he paused for breath I just looked at him, smiled and said “Have a nice day”.
I thought his head was going to explode. 😆