An analogy...

[denny]

Bit of a tangential thought process that just occurred after posting this comment, might appeal to the bikers and cyclists amongst us...

Buses and Bullies

Buses are the exact road-going equivalent of the cliche school bully. They're big, heavy, and a bit, well, slow. They use their greater size to physically intimidate those around them who aren't so slow, occasionally causing quite serious injury in the process. Physical retaliation is usually pointless, although occasionally a well-aimed blow can have some effect. More useful is to report them to the authorities, which although it feels rather less satisfactory than just striking back, can potentially cause much more serious and long-lasting problems for them...

Erm, that was it, I think. And I haven't even been smoking.

Comments

[meirion.livejournal.com]

they are deliberately aggressive ... and, worse, they're actually trained to be that way. i was on a bus a couple of weeks back that was being driven by a trainee driver, and there was an instructor on the bus berating her for being too considerate of other road users.

-m-