Oops

Hit my first pedestrian today. Tried to explain to the bloke that if you’re going to suddenly hurl yourself into an in-use cycle lane (in the course of a game of pavement football) then you have to accept the inevitable consequences. He seemed to think that I should have used my bell, whereas I was pretty sure that in the fraction of a second that I had to react, the slamming on of the brakes was by far the better option. It was just unfortunate all round that they chose this occasion not to bother working.