I was at the receiving end of another bit of aggression/hatred call it what you will towards me as a cyclist the other day.
Just cycling along and came to a pedestrian crossing. Stopped to allow pedestrians to cross, then started up again. A few metres (like 10 metres) beyond the pedestrian crossing a man stepped off the pavement. I thought he was doing that thing where you see a vehicle moving towards you and you predict its path and walk up towards it so you can quickly nip across when it’s gone past you.
But no, not in this case. He either thought that the pedestrian crossing pretty much takes up the whole street and so he had right of way, or just couldn’t give a fuck one way or the other. As I got closer I thought he was cutting it a bit fine but still assumed he would pause to let me past, but he just kept on walking so that in the end my shoulder smacked into the side of his. What a moron. He was trying to prove some point but I couldn’t work out what it was or really be bothered to find out. I didn’t even look back and just carried on.He definitely saw me though. He had headphones on and was looking directly at me. I was pondering it afterwards though – I mean even if we were both walking you wouldn’t just walk into someone, would you? Even if you thought that someone had walked in front of you, you wouldn’t just collide with them. And it’s a lot easier to stop when you are walking at 2mph than when you are cycling at 10mph.
What an idiot, though. Really dangerous to walk into a moving vehicle no matter how justified you feel your cause is.
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