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lethargic_manG-d I hate London motorists. I've just had a screaming altercation with one: I pulled out on my bike past a driver to turn right; he then turned right too without indicating, leaving me having to cross his path immediately in front of him to get back to the left of the road. I shouted "don't indicate!" at me, he shouted something about third-party liability insurance; I shouted "I wouldn't have tried to overtake you if you had indicated!"
Sadly, what made this incident different from the last two was that I didn't have anyone to back me up. Last time, I had a motorcyclist behind me telling me it was my fault, and the time before last, after a car swerved left across my path immediately in front of me, it was the cyclist behind me who did my normal job of shouting at the motorist to get off the bloody 'phone.
I hate London motorists and their attitudes; such incidents leave me literally shaking with fury; if I'm with other people (such as on Shabbos where a motorcyclist laughed at me for jumping out of the way after he'd roared up to the red light where I was crossing) it makes me extremely unsociable, not to mention pulling words out of me that I would not otherwise use in company. :-(
I was going to calm myself down by listening to the Salomone di Rossi CD I just got out of the library, but the sun's shining in the room; it's too hot to have the window closed, and it's too noisy with it open (I'm on a main road) to listen to classical music. :-(
Hmm... that Wikipedia article has no reference to his Jewish liturgical compositions at all! <updates> How far would you say it's acceptable to pillage the CD line notes for Wikipedia?
Sadly, what made this incident different from the last two was that I didn't have anyone to back me up. Last time, I had a motorcyclist behind me telling me it was my fault, and the time before last, after a car swerved left across my path immediately in front of me, it was the cyclist behind me who did my normal job of shouting at the motorist to get off the bloody 'phone.
I hate London motorists and their attitudes; such incidents leave me literally shaking with fury; if I'm with other people (such as on Shabbos where a motorcyclist laughed at me for jumping out of the way after he'd roared up to the red light where I was crossing) it makes me extremely unsociable, not to mention pulling words out of me that I would not otherwise use in company. :-(
I was going to calm myself down by listening to the Salomone di Rossi CD I just got out of the library, but the sun's shining in the room; it's too hot to have the window closed, and it's too noisy with it open (I'm on a main road) to listen to classical music. :-(
Hmm... that Wikipedia article has no reference to his Jewish liturgical compositions at all! <updates> How far would you say it's acceptable to pillage the CD line notes for Wikipedia?
