Flaferalcat
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Mrs FeralCat and I decided to take the Dart to Gainesville today to shop for some holiday dust collectors, (knick-knacks).
Traffic and weather were thick and strange with intermittent rain, and the new students for UofF jamming up the by-ways. I was in stop go bumper-bumper traffic and was coming up on the turn lane to make my right. I checked my rear-view mirror: CLEAR. I checked my left mirror: CLEAR. there was grass on my right. Who needs to check that mirror, right? WRONG!
As I started easing into the turn lane, the Mrs yells !!!SCOOTER!!!!
I jam on the brakes looking around, and finally saw it in the right mirror. Here comes some skinny kid driving up the shoulder, now next to my car. In the rain. No helmet. No eye protection. And riding illegally up the shoulder/grass. GRRRRRRrrrrrrRRRRRR!!!!
I almost hit him.. That would not have been fun, but being a biker myself, had he have been OK, It would have been pretty tough not to gut-slug him one for being SO STUPID!
Not being stupid enough, he then cuts n front of me into the turn lane, turns, then makes another right. No signals of any kind at any time.
Well, I've only been DRIVING for less than a year, but don't expect much sympathy from me RIDING like that and ending up a "statistic".
Just venting...
You're ALMOST always friendly FlaFeralCat.
Traffic and weather were thick and strange with intermittent rain, and the new students for UofF jamming up the by-ways. I was in stop go bumper-bumper traffic and was coming up on the turn lane to make my right. I checked my rear-view mirror: CLEAR. I checked my left mirror: CLEAR. there was grass on my right. Who needs to check that mirror, right? WRONG!
As I started easing into the turn lane, the Mrs yells !!!SCOOTER!!!!
I jam on the brakes looking around, and finally saw it in the right mirror. Here comes some skinny kid driving up the shoulder, now next to my car. In the rain. No helmet. No eye protection. And riding illegally up the shoulder/grass. GRRRRRRrrrrrrRRRRRR!!!!
I almost hit him.. That would not have been fun, but being a biker myself, had he have been OK, It would have been pretty tough not to gut-slug him one for being SO STUPID!
Not being stupid enough, he then cuts n front of me into the turn lane, turns, then makes another right. No signals of any kind at any time.
Well, I've only been DRIVING for less than a year, but don't expect much sympathy from me RIDING like that and ending up a "statistic".
Just venting...
You're ALMOST always friendly FlaFeralCat.
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