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04-10-2006, 12:20 PM
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| Sprocket Pilot   Join Date: Oct 2005
Bike: Silver/Grey VStar1300
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 866
|  Get ready for work at home people!!!!
Morning commutes are an adventure. This morning I was the first to stop at a light with a long cycle time. As I was sitting in first gear with the clutch pulled, and the brakes on, watching my mirror, I see a lady coming up behind me in an SUV. She's not looking at the road at all. As she gets closer, I realize she is looking down at something in her lap and bringing spoonfuls to her mouth, no hands on the wheel, looking at the bowl of cereal or yogurt cup in her lap, no clue the light is red. I'm angled toward the gap between the left lane where I'm stuck at the light, and the left turn lane, and just when I am ready to pop the clutch and clear the lane, she finally looks up and hits the brakes. Now she's stopped behind me and while waiting for the light to finally change, she wipes her mouth with a napkin, applies lipstick, looks in the mirror at herself, primps her hair with a brush, then pops open her cellphone and starts dialing!!!!!!! That's when the light changed and I decided to see just how well the M50 accelerates. All I can think of is getting away from this rolling menace. It would be nice if people could get their lazy butts out of bed 5 minutes earlier, get ready for work at HOME, and pay attention to driving on the way to work. I'm just venting. Watch out for the idiots and stay safe out there. |
