Kalessin
03-04-09, 12:11 AM
The other day I was riding to work around lunchtime, going up a long, straight hill, when a tractor appeared over the brow of the hill, pulling a huge trailer packed with bales of hay.
I was about three-quarters of the way up the hill, doing around 55-60mph, but I decided to slow down when a silver Ka pulled out from behind the tractor and started to overtake. The Ka obviously hadn't seen me, and it was going to be a little too close for comfort.
As I drew closer, slowing slightly, I was just debating whether to give a blast of the horn or an appropriate hand gesture when a big, black, shiny 4x4 pulled out from behind the trailer and began to overtake, even before the Ka had finished.
I performed an emergency stop close to the grass verge (textbook, up to the point where I stalled :oops:) and the 4x4 pulled closer to the still-moving tractor as he too came to a halt.
I flipped my visor up and shouted, "What the hell?"
4x4 bloke wound his window down and said, "Sorry mate, I didn't see you."
I retorted, "Well you wouldn't, would you, overtaking over the brow of a hill!"
Obviously having had enough of my self-righteous lecture, the driver said, "Alright, I said I was sorry," and began to wind his window up again.
I had just enough time to shout, "Sorry doesn't excuse you driving like a knob," when one of the hay bales which was sticking out of the trailer a little further than the others, slowly tore off his passenger wing mirror and tossed it gently across the bonnet, on to the road.
It was a beautiful thing to witness; karma in action. If only every idiot driver got what they deserve :)
I was about three-quarters of the way up the hill, doing around 55-60mph, but I decided to slow down when a silver Ka pulled out from behind the tractor and started to overtake. The Ka obviously hadn't seen me, and it was going to be a little too close for comfort.
As I drew closer, slowing slightly, I was just debating whether to give a blast of the horn or an appropriate hand gesture when a big, black, shiny 4x4 pulled out from behind the trailer and began to overtake, even before the Ka had finished.
I performed an emergency stop close to the grass verge (textbook, up to the point where I stalled :oops:) and the 4x4 pulled closer to the still-moving tractor as he too came to a halt.
I flipped my visor up and shouted, "What the hell?"
4x4 bloke wound his window down and said, "Sorry mate, I didn't see you."
I retorted, "Well you wouldn't, would you, overtaking over the brow of a hill!"
Obviously having had enough of my self-righteous lecture, the driver said, "Alright, I said I was sorry," and began to wind his window up again.
I had just enough time to shout, "Sorry doesn't excuse you driving like a knob," when one of the hay bales which was sticking out of the trailer a little further than the others, slowly tore off his passenger wing mirror and tossed it gently across the bonnet, on to the road.
It was a beautiful thing to witness; karma in action. If only every idiot driver got what they deserve :)