I think I must have put my invisible cloak on this morning.
A car passed so close that the air buffeted me towards the pavement. It was an urban road, but had two lanes. There was someone on the outside lane and clearly they couldn’t be bothered to wait a few seconds until there was room to pass and so just thought they’d squeeze through anyway. Cheers.
I thought I’d catch up with them at the next lights and give them an evil stare. And surprise, surprise, the driver had a mobile phone glued to his ear. He couldn’t have changed down a gear earlier as he needed his one remaining hand to steer.
I’m not sure why this annoyed me more than normal. Last night someone drove straight at me, trying to turn into a road that I was passing. Even a group of pedestrians were audibly shocked at the lack of care (and attention), but I was ale to deftly swerve the car and continue on my way. I was a little shook up for a minute, but not that bothered: it happens every day. But this one this morning was worse. I think that they could have killed or seriously hurt me and only because they couldn’t be bothered to pause for a second. The arrogance only compounded by the fact that they were on their fucking phone.
Seriously, people moaning about red-light jumping… it’s NOTHING in comparison to dumb-ass self-centered SOBs who would rather risk someone’s life than put their phone down and change gears.
There is a guy who straps a camera to his helmet every day and records these incidents and posts them on YouTube. I can see where he is coming from, although I’ve always thought it probably winds people up more than educates them. But sometimes, just sometimes, I wish I’d recorded what happened today, or last night.
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