From an interaction (rare for me tbh) with a Renault van driver last night.
VD: You stupid bastard, you nearly caused a farking accident
Me: How?
VD: You made me pass you and I nearly hit the farking car coming the other way.
Me: I didn't make you do anything. You nearly caused an accident by overtaking when it wasn't safe and then by cutting me up and almost knocking me off.
VD: You shouldn't be on the farking road. Cyclists cause all the farking accidents.
Me: So cyclists kill about 400 people a year on this small island? I didn't know that!
VD: You have no farking right to be on the road. I'm paying insurance. If I'd hit that car by having to overtake you, it would have cost me money. You don't even have farking insurance.
Me: Absolutely, because you would have caused an avoidable collision. There is a reason why you need to pay insurance on that van, it has the potential to cause a lot damage. My bike doesn't.
VD: No it's farking you who carries all the farking risk.
Me: Are you really so stupid to believe that.
VD: You have no right to be on the farking road.
Me: Is your journey more important than mine?
VD: Yes, because I pay a farking fortune to make this journey.
Me: It's your choice to use an expensive form of transport. You should get a bike.
VD: You're a farking danger. I have to MOT my van to prove it's roadworthy. You don't even have farking lights.
Me: (Pointing to my three tail lights and reflectors) What are these called?
VD: They're no farking good. Mine are designed to meet transport regulations, yours aren't.
Me: At least one of these meets the German transport regulations and is therefore legal throughout the EU. As does my headlamp. Can I also point out that one of your tail lights isn't working.
VD: I have to have my brakes tested every farking year, you probably don't even have brakes.
Me: - demonstrates working brakes back and front
VD: Your bike doesn't have any gears.
Me: Yes, it's fixed gear.
VD: It's dangerous to ride a bike with no farking gears.
Me: Why?
VD: Because you go too farking slow without gears.
Me: Not really much difference in normal riding. And I bet it's faster than your van through a town centre.
VD: I'm going to farking report you.
Me: What for?
VD: For riding a farking bike on a public road. It's farking illegal.
Me: I think you need to read the rules of the road.
VD: I farking know the rules of the road. I passed a farking driving test.
Me: So have I. Your point being?
This went on for some considerable length of time until he eventually told me to fark off and drove off.