Drivers overtaking too cautiously?!

[Cugel]

Bad luck. Two of the very few vehicles and the only cyclist coincided.

This seems to happen on a regular basis. Riding along on a deserted road until you get to a bend and suddenly a vehicle in both directions just as you reach the apex. Annoyingly, this often occurs on steep climbs!

This is the work of a special goblin, wrought by a particularly malevolent faery, of which there are quite a few in the hinterlands of Wales. This goblin somehow controls the feet of drivers and cyclists so that their resultant velocities cause the dangerous coincidence of vehicles that you mention. You may also notice that the road conditions whereat the coincidence occurs is the worst of all conditions found along that road. Sometimes it arranges bad weather too, that goblin! And the mud on the road.

Their nature is such that you not only never see these goblins but are somehow induced not to even think of their possible existence and nasty acts. Instead, you blame the poor van driver, who may a perfekly nice fellow until the goblin chooses him for its prank.

Many humans seem to be subject to all sorts of pranks from goblins of this kind. My suspicion, though, is that many apparent humans are in fact goblins in a human-suit. Oh yes they are! The suits are often inadequate disguises, though. Consider Tory MPs. which are almost certainly all such goblins. You can tell by their leers, gurns, mishapeness and outrageous opinions, statements and (most of all) actions, all designed to cause the utmost displeasures and outright harms to humans.

Cugel, trying out mad-as-a-rabid-bat conspiracy mode. (Or am I)!