This is what I wanted to say, but never could...

I was hanging around the streets here in Indianapolis waiting on the
elections crap. After a couple days of the Obama "setup", I got bored
today and went "shopping". I've got training tomorrow and got done
early today, so there's not much to do here in downtown other than
shopping. I wandered into the bookstore and found a few books to
browse. Valentiino Rossi's biography was one. Okay, I looked at the
pictures and moved on. There's only so many times you can look at
Rossi's bike leaned over before they eventually have you saying "oh,
I've seen that". The next book I found was a sport riding book and how
to be better at it. There were a bunch of good tips/tricks and I
finally found myself sitting down to read it.

To make this story short and not to re-write the book, I found one
phrase in there that has me saying "that's what I've always wanted to
say, but never found the words". The phrase came on a topic of how to
handle emergency situations. The topic was going into how to keep your
wits about you and not make dumb moves. We all have known at least one
person who's done this. A car moves in front or the rear tire slips,
and they panic. They'll panic and find themselves doing a stupid wreck
where if they just didn't panic they'd have been okay and not been
looking at high repair bills or worse....serious injuries.

Well, the phrase went something like this: Your mind reacts to the
environment it's used to. If you never ride in dangerous situations,
you'll never condition your mind on how to react. If you ride at times
"on the edge", you're less likely to panic when an emergency situation
happens.

Wow! I mean, that makes total sense. Police don't get their badge and
practice to have roses thrown at their feet. Nope, they practice
emergency situations.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share this. I hope everyone's doing
well....and it's back to the Obama crap for me!