However, it gives me an excuse to get something less important off my chest.
It's quite common around here to come across youngsters who like to beep their horn just behind a cyclist in the hope of making them jump. Let's call them beepers in hatchbacks. Unlike the junction drifters the beepers in hatchbacks are not particularly scary, and I don't think they are much of a risk either.
If a four year-old made a funny noise to try and make me jump I hope I would find it amusing. When somebody old enough to hold a driving license does the same thing it's irritating. But my mother tells me that I used to be a small child once myself, and I understand why it is funny to try and make people jump.
On the other hand, as a car passed me the other day somebody threw a banana skin at me out of the passenger window. I don't get where the humour lies in doing that. I see beepers in hatchbacks as immature, thoughtless and irresponsible. Throwing banana skins at cyclists isn't particularly scary, but it strikes me as the behaviour of someone who must be quite disturbed.
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Yep - sounds like the behaviour of someone who's just come down from the trees to me . . . have you seen those Clint Eastwood films with the orangutan? That's about the level of driver / passenger who throws banana skins at cyclists!
I've had this happen to me both way: being on a bike and being randomly screamed at from a car right next to me, and once being in a car in a busy road and a cyclist bellowed at us from the open passenger window. My mother told for years how close she came to swerving in the other lane. Me I came this close to opening the door and slamming it in the idiot.
There are imbeciles everywhere.
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