OneTrack
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I was in a bit of a hurry this morning when I left home on my FZ6, and suddenly realized about 20 seconds into the ride that I hadn't fastened my RF-1000's chin strap. (that was a first...). Anyhow, at the first opportunity, I signalled right and pulled over to the side of the road to fasten the chin strap. Once it was fastened, a quick shoulder check and off I went. I then realized that I hadn't zipped up my jacket outside pocket with my wallet in it, so rather than pull over, I slowed down and felt for the zip. While I was doing this, a van stopped at a stop sign about 100 feet ahead of me (from the right). As I was zipping up the pocket zipper, the van driver looked right at me and pulled out half into my lane before he realized (even though I was going quite slowly, probably about 30 kph) that I was going straight on.....I gave him a look in the old style and then realized....yep....I had not cancelled my right flasher from when I pulled over to fasten my chinstrap. I felt an absolute idiot, and felt sorry for the van driver. From his perspective, my right flasher was going and I was slowing down; therefore I was going to turn right. I really can't blame him for pulling out. He did stop immediately when he realized that I was going straight on, but must have been PO'd that I gave him a dirty look.
They say confession's good for the soul, right?
Moral of story: NEVER be so much "in a hurry" that you forget things like fastening your helmet up....In my case, mistakes began to accumulate that could have had a very different ending. My bad. :spank:
They say confession's good for the soul, right?
Moral of story: NEVER be so much "in a hurry" that you forget things like fastening your helmet up....In my case, mistakes began to accumulate that could have had a very different ending. My bad. :spank: