Real Life Conversations™

Today’s Real Life Conversation is brought to you by the fine drivers of London taxi cabs. This morning I had a not too uncommon encounter with a London taxi. First, let me set up the situation:

Taxi driver fails to see me approaching to his right, and yet, having seen no cars coming from his right side, begins pulling out into the road to make a right turn. Taxi driver sees traffic coming from his left and therefore cannot continue with his turn. As he sits there idling halfway across the lane, I continue my approach all the way up to his driver’s side door, where I pause, look up, and meet the driver’s eyes. I had deliberately left 1 inch of space between my front tire and his car door.

“Are you making a statement!?” he says.

“Yes,” I say, “you cannot pull out halfway into the street and expect me to swerve!”

“Fucking asshole!” he says.

Today’s Real Life Conversation was brought to you by the fine drivers of London taxi cabs.