Road RageLast week I had to stop a guy attacking another one in the middle of the road - one had run the lights whilst on the phone and the other had objected. I actually had to take the attacker's car keys out of their car and tell him he wasn't getting them back till he calmed down.
Looking back on it, I was lucky I was feeling all parental and in control or the situation could have panned out very differently.
Have you lost it on the roads, or have you been on the recieving end of some nutter?
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chthonic, Thu 12 Oct 2006, 21:31)
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Actually, following up on my previous story......something equally silly happened to my ex-girlfriend, who also cycles. No, that's not how we met. We're not that sad.
She was cycling down the road to head to her Mum's when a man steps out from between two parked cars to cross the road.
A blind man.
A blind man with a stick.
A blind man with a stick who crossed the road from between two cars.
Who, once my ex had screeched to a halt and narrowly missed him, decided to scream abuse at her for watching where she was going and having more care.
Her view on this is that the guy may well have been blind, but he had a stick, and he would've been able to tell he was crossing from between two parked cars.
Initially I thought, "Well no, because the two cars wouldn't impact his visibly because he hasn't got any." But it's not his visibly that was the problem, it was hers - she couldn't see he wanted to cross the road. So it wasn't her fault, was it?
He still kicked up a fuss, and my ex says if she sees him again she's not bothered if she stops or not.
(, Wed 18 Oct 2006, 14:23, Reply)
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