In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
(J999w) said:I'm stopped at a corner comming out of a subdivision, waiting to cross a
fairly
Quoted message said:busy, two lane road, I've got one foot on the ground. Here comes this chick,
dives out of traffic making a left turn onto the road I'm standing on. She
slides on the pea gravel and almost takes my front wheel out! Had there not
been any pea gravel for her to slide on, she would have hit it for sure.
I woke
Quoted message said:up half the neighborhood giving her some advice on how to drive.
Only my third ride of the year ... geeze.
John Wilke
Milwaukee
Sounds like yet another reason we all have to be "defensive riders." So
many times these drivers are going like blue blazes and not even looking
where they're going because they don't *expect* there to be anyone present
for them to worry about.
Whenever I see a car stopped ahead of me about to do something, or with
turn signals on about to enter my path, I like to make damn sure I know
the driver has seen me and knows I'm there and--hello?!?--they can't just
enter the street from a side street, or make a turn from the other side of
the street in front of me, or whatever it was they were almost about to do
without even looking because they didn't expect to see the likes of me.
But sometimes it sure isn't easy. Not with the drivers who don't look both
ways, or are too busy talking to the passenger, or who forget to signal.
--
Trudi
"He's lean, he's elegant, he's quick, he's ethereal
He makes grown men cry in their cereal."
--Rex Thomas's couplet about Johnny Weir
