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
