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RE: A Lesson In Attentiveness - Houtman_imp - 08-20-2020
I am glad that you are ok but I would have told the girl that she owes you a dinner date ... (yes I know that I a have a sick mind , no need to rub that in )
RE: A Lesson In Attentiveness - peterbaron - 08-20-2020
ES, glad you are OK.
Admire how you handled the bump.... I am of a much shorter fuse, lesson learnt: stay calm and polite!
RE: A Lesson In Attentiveness - Cormanus - 08-20-2020
(08-20-2020, 08:13 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: Empty, first of all, glad you weren't injured, and sounds like your bike is OK. That was very nice of you to comfort the girl in the Kia, rather than getting upset with her. And a very good opportunity to look at the situation as a whole, and recognize that by focusing on one thing, your attention was taken away from something else which was more critical at the moment, watching your mirrors at an intersection.
I was ruminating on this not too long ago, when a post came up on ADVRider about how many times you've ever dropped a bike while stopped. I've done it a few times, and listing them, I realized each incident was the result of paying more attention to something else than the procedure of stopping, parking, and getting off of a bike.
True story: I bought my first bike—a Honda CB175—when I was 16. I forget now what time of the year it was, but I suspect early spring. I picked it up over a weekend and was riding it to school on the following Monday morning. My route took me through the city. As I took off from an intersection, I was mesmerised by an attractive member of the opposite sex sashaying along the street in a spectacular spring frock and rode into the back of the car in front of me. The front mudguard was damaged and my pride has never recovered. However, I did learn to pay attention to what was happening in the traffic in front of me.
RE: A Lesson In Attentiveness - The A-man - 08-20-2020
Good on you MTC for being empathetic towards that young lady. Glad you and the bike are unharmed.
RE: A Lesson In Attentiveness - pdedse - 08-21-2020
I'm wondering how you would have reacted had Kia girl been the one to cut you off and the guy in the caddy the one who bumped you from behind!!
Just messin' ...glad you are OK and I'm sure the gal will learn from it.
RE: A Lesson In Attentiveness - whizzle_dizzler_imp - 08-21-2020
Last year, early summer in Va Beach, I had just got off work and was sitting at an intersection on my CBR600RR. There were two cars in front of me waiting for the light to change. Light goes green, I wait for the two cars in front to start moving. The car in front of me hadn't even moved yet, and I felt a bump from behind. Something felt odd, and I couldn't lean the bike over. I look behind me, and I'm staring straight into the grille of a black Lincoln Navigator. I slapped the hood and yelled at the guy to back up so I could actually get off and set the bike on its stand. The front bumper was sitting on top of the rear tire, locking the bike in place. Astounded how someone didn't notice a guy with a fluorescent yellow helmet and extremely loud sportbike in front of them, I walked over to his window, didn't know what else to do but to call him stupid, and told him to pay more attention next time.
RE: A Lesson In Attentiveness - emptysea - 08-21-2020
(08-21-2020, 01:03 AM)pdedse_imp Wrote: I'm wondering how you would have reacted had Kia girl been the one to cut you off and the guy in the caddy the one who bumped you from behind!!
Just messin' ...glad you are OK and I'm sure the gal will learn from it.
I very well may have reacted differently, but not strictly because Kia Girl was a girl. I don't think I mentioned this in my original comments, but when I got off my bike to see who hit me, I could read her lips saying "Oh my God! Oh my God" and the first words out of her mouth when I got to her car window were "I'm sooo sorry!". I didn't know then that she was 18, but she instantly reminded me of my daughter who, when she was 18 or 19, backed out of a parking spot while adjusting the radio and hit another vehicle. She was so upset at the time, but took full responsibility for her mistake. I saw my daughter's face in Kia Girl as I walked to her car. Couldn't get too angry with her at that point and since she, like my daughter, took full responsibility for what happened. It was pretty easy for me to remain calm.
Some old guy that looks like me, in a Cadillac, talking on his phone and wondering what just happened?? I doubt that I'd have been the calming voice of compassion and empathy in that situation -- although I aspire to that level of calm during a crisis.
RE: A Lesson In Attentiveness - Gone in 60 - 08-21-2020
That's not surprising, Whizzle. The guy in the Navigator was probably looking down at his phone. When the car next to him started to move, he probably just did as well, without looking.