AlanW
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I have a bit of a problem and I don’t know how best to tackle it, so advice please?
My daily commute home from work involves me riding along a single track country lane which on the whole is pretty much free from any traffic. On the section in question, on the left side (as I’m riding along it), is a grass verge at least 2 metres wide. On the other side of the road the verge is probably only ½ metre with a tall hedgerow adjacent to it.
Every night without fail, I meet an elderly guy walking his two black Labradors, neither of which are on a lead I hasten to add and the guy also carries a large shepherds crook. Bizarrely I meet him in near enough the exact same point every night, he is walking towards me so he can see me coming at least ½ mile in advance.
For whatever reason he doesn’t walk on the grass verge but he chooses to walk at least ½ metre away from it in the road? Whenever he has a car/tractor/van or me coming towards him he will always stop and shout at his two dogs to sit and stay, which on the whole they generally do. But he doesn’t move from his ½ metre position from the grass verge? As a result any passing traffic have to take quite a wide berth around him?
The problem arose the other night when a 4x4 was coming towards me and the old boy did his usual standing still routine ½ metre out from the grass verge trick. The 4x4 could see that we were all going to meet at the same point, so slowed down. But not enough and we all passed each other at the pinch point, the old boy on the left, me in the middle and the 4x4 on the right. In truth is wasn’t ideal but IMHO there was still enough room for us to pass. Although had the old boy moved to the grass verge there would have been even more space!!
Anyway, as I passed him, he shouted some words of wisdom at me, well to be precise he called me a “f*cking c*nt”! So I immediately stopped and turned around and asked what he just called me as I couldn't really believe what I had just heard? To which he repeated it again, he then raised his shepherd’s crook as if to hit me. So I asked him he intended hitting me with it or not? He replied that I should not be “speeding up and down this lane and that I should have a bell fitted”??? I’ll be quite open and honest, I really really wanted to thump the old dickhead, and even now I don’t what stopped me, as I was shaking with rage.
Anyway, I turned and rode away, and now most evening when we pass each other there are just staring glances at one other.
However, last night as I approached him, he did his usual standing still trick ½ metre out from the grass verge, but this time he moved his shepherds crook from the vertical to position to the horizontal position. Then as I got closer he moved it further out towards me just as a another car came over the brow of the hill. As I passed him, this time he called me a “f*cking pri*k”, but I simply carried on without stopping. But I have a feeling that this is going to get out of hand, with either him or me doing something that we may regret later on.
My wife says that I should just go another way home, but why the heck should I?
My daily commute home from work involves me riding along a single track country lane which on the whole is pretty much free from any traffic. On the section in question, on the left side (as I’m riding along it), is a grass verge at least 2 metres wide. On the other side of the road the verge is probably only ½ metre with a tall hedgerow adjacent to it.
Every night without fail, I meet an elderly guy walking his two black Labradors, neither of which are on a lead I hasten to add and the guy also carries a large shepherds crook. Bizarrely I meet him in near enough the exact same point every night, he is walking towards me so he can see me coming at least ½ mile in advance.
For whatever reason he doesn’t walk on the grass verge but he chooses to walk at least ½ metre away from it in the road? Whenever he has a car/tractor/van or me coming towards him he will always stop and shout at his two dogs to sit and stay, which on the whole they generally do. But he doesn’t move from his ½ metre position from the grass verge? As a result any passing traffic have to take quite a wide berth around him?
The problem arose the other night when a 4x4 was coming towards me and the old boy did his usual standing still routine ½ metre out from the grass verge trick. The 4x4 could see that we were all going to meet at the same point, so slowed down. But not enough and we all passed each other at the pinch point, the old boy on the left, me in the middle and the 4x4 on the right. In truth is wasn’t ideal but IMHO there was still enough room for us to pass. Although had the old boy moved to the grass verge there would have been even more space!!
Anyway, as I passed him, he shouted some words of wisdom at me, well to be precise he called me a “f*cking c*nt”! So I immediately stopped and turned around and asked what he just called me as I couldn't really believe what I had just heard? To which he repeated it again, he then raised his shepherd’s crook as if to hit me. So I asked him he intended hitting me with it or not? He replied that I should not be “speeding up and down this lane and that I should have a bell fitted”??? I’ll be quite open and honest, I really really wanted to thump the old dickhead, and even now I don’t what stopped me, as I was shaking with rage.
Anyway, I turned and rode away, and now most evening when we pass each other there are just staring glances at one other.
However, last night as I approached him, he did his usual standing still trick ½ metre out from the grass verge, but this time he moved his shepherds crook from the vertical to position to the horizontal position. Then as I got closer he moved it further out towards me just as a another car came over the brow of the hill. As I passed him, this time he called me a “f*cking pri*k”, but I simply carried on without stopping. But I have a feeling that this is going to get out of hand, with either him or me doing something that we may regret later on.
My wife says that I should just go another way home, but why the heck should I?
