Bill Lumberg
Merica
About 540am, rolling into zombie central, a Sentra made about as an abrupt double lane change to the right to catch an exit as is possible without rolling the car. Guess who was occupying that space? Just yesterday I was thinking- bike is coming up on 2 years of ownership. I really need to cycle the ABS in some gravel, or buy the tool. Task completed! Origato! Two wheel chatterslide engage.
It was so close, I wasn't at all sure there wasn't contact. I gently suggested to the driver that he pull to the shoulder (an admore light bar in hazard mode is a beautiful thing). Checked the bike with my flashlight, looked okay. Hippie gets out and starts apologizing. I told him we were both lucky. What was an inconvenience could've been a permanent bad day for both of us. He starts crying. I tell him it's cool, just be careful. He wants to apologize more and blubber. I empathized, but at this point we are in the dark, on the side of the road, with cars whizzing by at 85mph. He is standing one foot in the roadway. I finally had to tell him someone else not paying attention was going to hit us if we didn't get moving.
And that's how I crossed off a maintenance item before 6am.
It was so close, I wasn't at all sure there wasn't contact. I gently suggested to the driver that he pull to the shoulder (an admore light bar in hazard mode is a beautiful thing). Checked the bike with my flashlight, looked okay. Hippie gets out and starts apologizing. I told him we were both lucky. What was an inconvenience could've been a permanent bad day for both of us. He starts crying. I tell him it's cool, just be careful. He wants to apologize more and blubber. I empathized, but at this point we are in the dark, on the side of the road, with cars whizzing by at 85mph. He is standing one foot in the roadway. I finally had to tell him someone else not paying attention was going to hit us if we didn't get moving.
And that's how I crossed off a maintenance item before 6am.
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