Yes it is, Doug. But the misfire comes with the extremely arrogant attitude of a bloke in his gas-guzzling tin overcoat screaming swearwords at two people who are just flesh and blood in the open air. I've been driving cars and riding bikes for well over half a century and I can't ever remember encountering two-abreast cyclists who wouldn't give way to a car behind once they'd become aware of it. Seems to me that his anger was somewhat confected. By the way, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with two abreast, when you consider that a car driver is "two abreast" whether he has a passenger or not.