Tae a Taxi Driver...

...yer a galloot!!!


Shall I expand and explain?

I've been hitting up the Instography dr-ycling run from Ingliston to the town centre for a few weeks now and I was just saying to other Blip-cyclist JustSitting G, the other day, that the good experiences of cycling on roads are outweighing the bad experiences but that the Edinburgh taxi drivers are threatening to tip the balance.

Now by all means, I'm not going to tar all taxi drivers or even all Edinburgh taxi drivers with my same brush and I'd really like to find that it is actually only one of them but the bizarre behaviour as I shall explain, happening regularly on the same journey and around the same time suggest that it possibly is one perpetrator.

Up until today, the acts against us were merely beeping the horn (personal peve of mine even before it's directed at me for no reason) as they pass. Granted we take up a full width on the bus/cycle lane before the time it becomes a bus/cycle lane only but really the traffic at that time in the morning is nothing to worry about and we certainly don't hold any other road users up.

This morning was even more laughable than normal. We cross a roundabout just after we leave the car. We had crossed the main up ramp that MrTaxi was going up and my rear wheel was just mounting the pavement to get off the roundabout as MrTaxi beeped his horn from halfway round the roundabout, taking a good few seconds to come to the part we'd crossed at. He compounded this but going to the trouble of winding his window down and shouting "Fannies!" at us as he passed the section we'd crossed well before he got to it.

The more I think about it, the more I reckon it's the same person each time and it just makes it more funny. I'll probably be able to add even more hilarity to it by taking his number plate and reporting him.

As Insto pointed out, "If he's that grumpy, that early into his working day, he really should be pitied."