Yesterday then,
I was heading back home after a days work and I got to the new section of road just before the bridge. I was coming from Edinburgh via the A90 towards the A8000 spur, and there are two lanes. The left is a continuous lane that takes you on to the new 3 lane road to the bridge. The right hand lane merges with the middle of the 3 lanes. In between the continuous lane and the other 2 lanes of the merge is a thick set of chevrons, to keep folk at safe distances I guess, and perhaps offer a route for emergency services to get up. Anyway.
I was in the right hand lane, ready to merge in to the traffice from the middle lane and in front of me was another biker. We were just about to merge when a car to the left of the biker in front who was on the continuous lane, cut across the chevrons and tried to merge on to the two main lanes. The biker, seeing this as totally idiotic and dangerous, waved his disgust at the driver 2 ft from his window. Shaking his head and holding both his hands up in amazement, he continued to watch this car driver drive along the chevrons, waiting for the biker to get out the way.
So now, having established that the car driver was an idiot, the biker accellerated forward to let the car driver in to my lane. I had already merged with the main traffic, but then passed the car driver who looked at me with a glakit expression (Scottish for blank, confused look) and then got on his merry way.
All the while however, the biker who had shown his disgust at this idiot driver, had now accellerated past him, went back on to the chevrons, continued speeding up until he was doing roughly 30-40mph more than the flowing traffic and then cut through all 3 lanes, weaved in and out of the traffic and then he was gone.
I was left thinking that, even though the car driver had done a silly move, the biker thought, “I’ll show him” and proceeded to show off his mad skillz by doing one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen! Similar to my “There’s a reason for all the cliches” post, this guy was a hypocrit in motion.
Why would you show the guy who just made a boo-boo, that he made a bo0-boo, by making a serious boo-boo yourself?
Shades of “That’s not a knife….this is a knife” I feel.
Anyway, I’m glad he got it off his chest!
Gordon
