Nearly had a fight this morning.

i was out with my g/f last sunday. ride from highbury down through the fields and then round the roundabout going towards upper street when some car swings out of st pauls road and across the roundabout, coming within an inch and a half (literally!) of helen, almost knocking her off. luckily, she heard me shout and swerves out of the way, but the guy drives off without even noticing. i speed up and catch up with him, get in front of him at a light and then start screaming at him (i'm not usually that bad, although i have been known to shout before). he just smiles and points at the lights, then laughs and points some more. so i get off my bike, lean it against his bonnet so he can't drive off and go around and start knocking on his window telling him to wind it down. he laughs some more, but the door is locked. eventually, i'm walking backwards and forwards in front of his car to the door and back, (actually, i just keep walking forwards - backwards would be stupid!) and a load of traffic has stopped to see what's happening. so the driver gets out of his car and i continue shouting at him, telling him he almost killed my g/f and that he better apologise, which he initially fails to do. i ended up screaming at him for about 5 minutes, telling him he's a lunatic and that he needs to watch where he's driving, that he almost killed her etc. two things i did NOT do was 1) hit him and 2) swear at him - just shouted lots and made very clear that i was angry and he was dangerous. police were actually around the corner on holloway road hassling other people but didn't come anywhere near us. the driver and his mate are both of south east asian origin so claim they don't speak english - "very solly" repeatedly, but that's about it. not entirely convinced they were tourists as the car did not say "i'm a hire car" all over it as they often do, but i guess he could have been. bloody sunday drivers. grrrr :/