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@mkwadee@mastodon.org.ukPart of one of my #CycleRoutes is through the #CityCentre which has a road for use only by #cyclists and #buses. Some pedestrians tend to be very inattentive, particularly if they don’t hear an engine and are apt to step into the road without looking. That’s what my bell is usually for. Today, however, took the biscuit; some man stepped into the road, not just without looking, but with is head in a novel!
There was no time to use the bell and so I shouted very loudly, “Watch it!” and he stopped just as I passed him. I heard him say something like “Alright mate, don’t get angry.” The truth is, I wasn’t angry, I was trying to get his attention off the book and on the road. At the next traffic light, I turned to the cyclist behind me who had witnessed the event and agreed that I hadn’t overreacted. Oh well…