In the space of a week I’ve experienced two road rage incidents.
First one: went to a colleague’s house for mulled wine and mince pies. I parked on the side of the road. Meanwhile, a moron of a colleague decided to park on the other side of the road opposite. I too, would’ve had road rage if I was the neighbour trying to get to work and the road was blocked. So, I go out to move my car and the guy starts shouting at me ‘you’re not going to park there again, you’ve just blocked everyone’ … ‘no shit sherlock’… as if I’d put my car back there again. I try to calmly explain I’m parking somewhere else and he throws his arms in the air and shouts ‘oh you people’… ???
Second one: my tires on my bike are so hard since they were pumped up on Monday, that this morning going over a tweeny bump my basket went flying off infront me. I squeezed the brakes hard, as did the two cyclists behind me. But we were all fine… such are the hazards of biking. This happened just before a very, very narrow part of the road, you know to stop speeding cars. I had to get off my bike and pick up the basket… blocking the traffic for less than a minute if that. As I get on my bike the moron in the car behind me honks his horn which flusters me and slows me down more. He honks again, so, I turn around mouth at the wanker to ‘fuck off’. Possibly harsh, but he wasn’t helping my cause to get out of the road. It’s not like I could’ve simply vanished into thin air to leave him to run over my basket.
So, I get on my bike and ride off into the sunset… and round the corner I hit another bump and off goes my basket, this time not in anyone’s way, but Mr Honk the Horn stops his car, gets out and starts shouting at me… I can’t make out what he’s going on about but I shout back ‘my basket fell off you moron’, and he shouts more which got the deserved very loud reply from me to OH JUST FUCK OFF! He drove off. I hadn’t noticed the two guys standing on the pavement witnessing it all – they shook their heads smiling and tell me the guy was a wanker. Yeah, really?!
RAWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRR