Re: OT: Near miss today

--- In [email protected], "auwg" <auwg@...> wrote:
>
> Yes, they would.
> I tend to ride (and drive) as if everyone else on the road is drugged,
> blind, and deranged. This being a retirement town, about half the
> other drivers on the road at any given time probably have two out of
> three of those afflictions.
> 
> Granny comes to sunny Florida once a year to see her kids. She'll try
> to schedule her eye repairs to fit her visit so she'll have family
> support, but she wouldn't dream of asking them to haul her around.
> The doc will say 'wait half an hour', but she'll be impatient and out
> of the clinic in fifteen or less. That means she'll be on the roads in
> her godzilla barge of a Lincoln while she's:
> 1. still dilated and seeing blurs (can't be more than thirty feet from
> a road sign to read it)
> 2. wearing huge and unfamiliar 'lazer shades' sungoggles
> 3. typically over-medicated (the American Way!) for other health
> issues and somewhat confused
> 4. looking for where Barkley Ave meets Cortez Blvd (they don't meet)
> 5. driving slow in the fast lane 'cuz she's sure it'll be a left turn
> 6. very much in need of a bathroom
> 7. discussing directions with a son or daughter on a cell phone
> 
> It may sound cruel, but when she lunges into my lane, she becomes one
> of the best reasons for a Stebel horn on a motorcycle.
> Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
> Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
> http://www.AbintraPress.com
> My Fictionwise Ratings: http://tinyurl.com/26v45
> 

I always like a hi/lo pair of Fiamm horns on my bike. They would win
over any car horn and some truck horns yet were very compact and
easily mounted on the bike. I just got an iphone this week. I don't
have any ebooks on it yet and may never put any on it since I have my
Sony reader. I am going to put some audio books on it if I can ever
get a reply from audibles on how to do that.


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