30 Jun 2015, 9:36 pm
#1641
(30 Jun 2015, 8:56 pm)idiot Care to go?! 
My rant is that my PAT machine has failed calibration 
I nearly got run over by a car as I couldn't see any cars behind at a junction as their was four or five cyclists on the footpath right behind me so the view behind was totally obscured and then when I got across the road one of them nearly went into the back of me giving me dirty looks as well.
I have a strong disliking to cyclists as I have had a few incidents with them recently both physically and verbally - one got really angry as I was walking down a narrow footpath and he came up behind me and started shouting at me telling me to get out of the way, I have a had a few arguments with them when they have tried to claim I'm in the wrong when it has been them who are in the wrong. I was recently knocked down to the grond in Darlington Town Centre as I was walking up Tubwell Row which is on a bit of a hill and a cyclist came thundering down like a bat out of hell and with the speed he was doing going downhill and had no control so ended up colliding with me knocking me to the ground, thankfully me and my camera were physically unharmed although I wanted to physically harm the pillock.
All these incidents now have me turning my head like I'm possessed everytime I have to walk anywhere as I now have the fear I am going to have one collide into me or one will be having a angry exchange of words with me and I already had problems thinking people are going to beat me up or shout at me etc. before these incidents happened.
I would like to point out in many of the incidents these people people have not being the cyclist's who you see wearing helmets, high viz and the shorts it's been people in normal clothing Hoodies, jeans and no helmets.
As I am not a cyclist I can't see things from their viewpoint and I am a bit of an arse about this sort of thing but in some of these cases I am having to think about my own safety even when there isn't any for miles thanks to these incidents it's left me slightly paranoid that I am going to have another incident which I really don't want to happen.
I really don't want to annoy anyone so for some of the comments I have made in regards to cyclists I apologise but some of my comments I feel are justified. I regret most of the things I post in this thread and wish I could control my outbursts on here and in other ways but I seem to struggle.
