SMIDSY: ER-5 vs Honda Civic

Only in places. Perspective is everything.

I felt a bit like that earlier, so went and dug out the old photos.
It didn't work. So I tried music that had memories attached - didn't
work. Maybe I didn't need a good cry that much after all.

Sad films. Truly Madly Deeply or Bambi works for me.

 

Lozzo wrote

<thinks>

Ouch.

Oh I dunno. Boots, summer gloves, yerrat, breathing out, there is loads
of stuff.

 

"Not having been there in the first place" comes to mind. BT, DT.

 

This is he problem. I haven't had a cry for over two years now. All
of the emotions just stack up and stack up which would normally be
released with a good old selfish cry. But I don't ever get to that
point anymore. I'm sure I'd be better emotionally if I just had a
good explosion of tears and/or anger.

Animal getting killed by peep on motorcycle. Good thinking...

 

Oh and even Maggie O' Farrel books aren't working. 'After you'd gone'
would usually be a half a box of tissues job - not so much as a
sniffle.

<nods> I discovered during the worst of the shit with the ex that if I
so much as felt my eyes watering I just clicked my fingers and it went
away. Good skill to have I suppose, but long term I don't think this
is a good thing.

<nods> Even my anger is a bit wishy washy these days. Flare up and
half an hour later I'm fine and wondering why people are cowering
around me.

There's the bit in Watership Down where they get squished.

 

Agreed, at least make sure there is an insurance report and a police
report.

Remember *he* may try and claim against you !

Unless, you have some thing to hide ?

 

Somewhere else in this thread there's a post by me saying I've filed a
report with the police and I've told my insurance company already.

....And the reason I filed my reports are in case this happens.

For fucks sake, it's not like *I* was in the wrong and I'm in no mood
to entertain accusations of it from anyone today.

 

I think he likes you and wants you to come along to play with us on
Saturday. I've already told him you're away this weekend though.

Once, twice, three times a lady.

You don't ride like one.

 

I was unhurt, my helmet didn't touch the road, I didn't need any time
off work, I didn't lose any sleep, I was delayed for about 10 minutes
on my journey home. Engine bars were already chipped from when I
threw the bike in a ditch, and the mirror was just replaced with the
original one which already featured rust. What is worth a reasonable
insurance claim apart from an already damaged mirror and a cigarette?

If he wants to, he can drive around with a BGN size 13 steel-capped
boot mark in his bonnet and a scrape the length of the front of his
car from my footpeg. There's going to be money spent on his car by
either himself or his insurance company so he's going to be out of
pocket in one way or another.

 

Indeed it will.

Glad you're OK.

 

Worth a try, though, surely?

 

Simian wrote

Not necessarily good advice though is it, or bad for that matter. It
depends dunnit, using the horn I mean. It depends on circumstances.

Take the other day for example. There was me quite enjoying making
progress just right going right round a wide roundabout and in
expectation of the full on beans I was going to be giving it in half a
second when my fun was spoilt by a blind prat in a repmobile.

A tenth of a second later and I was into the business of saving my life.
Which, as it happens, was entirely under the control of my right hand
leaving me free to do something with the left. I immediately began the
process of making the internationally recognised signal for 'I am about
to pull a wheelie'.

Another tenth of a second went by before I realised what I was riding
and the utter futility of performing such a gesture especially while
wearing Panthans.

It then occurred to me that I could have used the horn instead and in an
attempt to have a quick stab at it before both I and the moment passed
and forgetting that by now my right hand had been instrumental in moving
the bars a bit my thumb completely missed the horn button and cancelled
the indicators instead.

While all this was going on my exit hove into view and I had to forget
matey and get on with the business of putting it all behind me.

A little way up the road, while I was waiting for enough revs to make it
worthwhile changing up another gear, it dawned on me that matey's view
of the whole thing would have been this hooligan on a bike giving him a
cheery wave as he cut across his bows while showing no indication.

With hindsight I think the horn may have been more appropriate, unless
he thought I was being sarcastic which I don't think likely.

 

....

 

If you come along then he might bring Charley Boorman with him.
However I'm not sure he can contract him at short notice.

Perhaps I should say you don't ride like a girl.

I'm going to bed.

 

I don't recall ever hinting that that cars DON'T pull out. I do have
a grasp of his this road thing works. I also know how a horn works,
when to use it and what it does.

I've no idea what you're trying to tell me. It's like me walking
forward ten feet and you saying, "you've just walked forward ten
feet."

 

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:31:54 +0100,

It's never stopped me before, and it's never stopped them in the past.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, BGN amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

You need to stop horsing around.

 

The value of my bike hasn't reduced at all, it's the same as it was
last week. The bike fell over when it was going just a few mph, I
might as well have dropped it while stationary.

I haven't had to pay anything.

I'm not sending out that message and apologise if you're offended -
but I've got nothing to claim for.

I'm not going to make a claim as there is nothing I can claim for
without making things up.

 

The point is to try and drive the muppet's premium up, in the probably
vain hope that he'll pay more attention. I am really surprised at your
no damage having presented a 3rd party with just shy of £900 for
knocking a bike of the stand - had a proper garage estimate?

 

Utter bollocks.