Originally Posted by
work4bike
It's been my experience that it's good practice to always expect the absolute worse and unexpected results when dealing with kids and animals -- they just do the most illogical things, since they're both on about the same mental level...and that's giving kids the benefit of the doubt. I had a kid on a little bike run directly into my rear wheel on a perpendicular direction. He was looking right at me and I was thinking, surely he's going to stop or turn away. Now whenever I see kids or animals anywhere near me, I'm on guard for the totally unexpected.
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I spoke too soon when I said,
"...it's good practice to always expect the absolute worse and unexpected results when dealing with kids and animals..."
Today, I was on a 4-lane divided highway with absolutely zero shoulder/bike lane and the posted speed limit is 45-mph, which means most people are going at least 55.
There were two crazy-looking people (they were adults) sitting on the curb with their feet on the fog line -- you're forced to have your feet on the fog line if you sit on the curb and you could easily put your feet in the road and get them run over. Why the hell they were sitting on a curb on this type of roadway is beyond me. I had to signal real quick and take the lane, but part of me wanted to buzz them for being too stupid, but I probably would have ended up on the pavement as quick as Lance during the 2003 TdF.
