Tags: Cycling
Date: 21 September 2005 16:46:42
Since being on placement in Neath, I have been cycling to the station in Swansea and catching the train to Neath. I have discovered that I get road rage when I on my bike. I am constantly swearing under my breath and getting really annoyed at many of the car drivers as I cycle through the centre of Swansea. But I reckon its eco-friendly road rage because a lot of the time I'm getting annoyed because of the pollution and general bullying attitude a lot of the car drivers have on the road. I'm only a little cyclist! Its probably brought on due to the stress of trying to cycle up the big hill, ensure I'm going the right way, in the right lane and I'm not going to get knocked over in the process. My Dad often gets annoyed at car drivers when he's cycling, I don't know whether he would describe it as eco-friendly road rage, but I think its rubbed off onto me.
On another aspect of my daily journey to Neath - I really have to make sure I don't fall asleep on the train. I am used to train journeys being about 5 hours long, so when I get on a train I go into automatic day-dreaming mode. Several times I have re-emerged in the real world, to find myself at Neath station, and gone 'argh! - I need to get off!'. I'm sure I'm going to wake up in Port Talbot or even Cardiff one of these days!