ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Main thing is you're ok. Just LEARN from the experience please, it's kinda good with you around.
I'm the smidsy
- Thread starter yello
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Thanks all, I'd prefer to be here than not too!
I don't know what to learn though. I looked, I just didn't see. I wish there was something (like pernod) to blame. I even calculated my weight loss (1.3%) to see if dehydration had been a possible cause for some kind of cognitive failing... it wasn't. I just got it wrong.
I'll try to make an effort to look and look again!
I don't know what to learn though. I looked, I just didn't see. I wish there was something (like pernod) to blame. I even calculated my weight loss (1.3%) to see if dehydration had been a possible cause for some kind of cognitive failing... it wasn't. I just got it wrong.
I'll try to make an effort to look and look again!
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
yello said:
Ok, let's look at your narrative again;
yello said:
Forgive me if I'm stating the bleedin obvious but I'd say from the above that you needed a final right check(life saver)just before moving off, especially when the left is clear you can get a longer look down the road as you turn.
Still, no harm done and as has been said we've all had moments like this, a momentry lapse that scares the 'bejesus' out of us and slithers a cold tenticle of reality down our backs.
I think normally I would have been looking to the right as I moved out, instead I glanced down to look at my pedal because I missed the clip in first time. It was only as I lifted my head that I saw the cars bonnet. My first shocked thought was 'where'd he come from'!
I'm still stunned that I didn't see him - it was a straight road!
I'm still stunned that I didn't see him - it was a straight road!
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
Yes, and thank you Crackle.
Were there cars parked on both side of the road?
It is very easy to miss a car that was stationary and then pulls away when you're not looking.
Also clipping in to push off before you start moving will stop those rolling missed clip moments.
Don't be hard on yourself, you were very lucky the motorist saw you.
Were there cars parked on both side of the road?
It is very easy to miss a car that was stationary and then pulls away when you're not looking.
Also clipping in to push off before you start moving will stop those rolling missed clip moments.
Don't be hard on yourself, you were very lucky the motorist saw you.
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
yello said:
Was your right foot already clipped in and it was the left foot that you had trouble clipping in?
I think I read it as you didn't have either foot clipped in before you pushed off.
I can only think that as you pulled out you crossed into a very similar dimension where there had already been a car approaching and there is another you in that dimension now who could have sworn he saw a car approaching but then just disappeared.
Left foot was already clipped in, the right was the problem.
I think there must have been a rift in the space-time continuum at exact place and time just at the moment I crossed the stop line and, as you say, I was propelled in to an alternative dimension where that car was the only difference. Though my wife seems a little different, I'd better ask her if she's had her hair cut.
I think there must have been a rift in the space-time continuum at exact place and time just at the moment I crossed the stop line and, as you say, I was propelled in to an alternative dimension where that car was the only difference. Though my wife seems a little different, I'd better ask her if she's had her hair cut.
