Wilsons Sandbox

Talking about old ladies who can't see. About a year ago my wife was parked out on the main street in the town (Temple City, Ca) where I live. She opened her door to get out. Before she got out she was checking something in her purse. Now mind you the car door had been open for a good twenty seconds. All of a sudden she felt the door being ripped from the car, and glass flying everywhere. She immediately called me and within ten minutes I was there. This little old lady (in every sense of the word) was standing there practically incoherent, wondering "whaaa happened". I figured she was on some kind of medication, but regardless, she had no business driving a car. About a month later my wife meet up with her by accident and said she was in exactly the same semi-comatose state. Russel'r DSN_klr650@egroups.com Subject: [DSN_klr650] Being Seen II I was riding to work this morning and just about there. There is a ramp that merges at a relatively steep angle into downtown (the ramp merges into its own lane) and I was on my way up. I try to keep myself between the cars as I'm merging and look at the people's heads as they drive. It's common for folks to change into the new right lane as soon as it appears regardless of the solid white line separating them. The little old lady in the Buick had dark sunglasses with side blinders so I was certain she didn't see me. What I didn't expect was that when she cut me off she would also hit her brakes. Yikes! There is a 6 inch curb so that was not an exit. All I could do was pray and grab brakes. Missed her by about 3 feet. She never saw me at all. When my Darien arrives I'll be accentuating it with more tape and I like the idea of rim tape for night time riding. I'll also be getting a louder horn but the fact remains that while some folks just don't see bikers, there are others who just don't see ANYONE. Hence all the fender benders. Drive ahead... Concentrate... Jim Jackson II (learning every day) A13 - South Carolina ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatalogLink offers hundreds of catalogs for FREE! Click here to find the latest and greatest in the world of catalogs - check out our featured Picks of the Week and also look to enter our $500 catalog shopping spree! http://click.egroups.com/1/6068/6/_/911801/_/962987089/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the KLR650 archives at http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... Let's keep this list SPAM free! Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com